Imaginary-argument gamma asymptotic

ID: imaginary-argument-gamma-asymptotic

Rotating the integral defining the Gamma function toward the positive imaginary axis introduces the factor . After scaling by , the remaining phase is , whose unique stationary point is with second derivative . The stationary phase method gives for this scaled integral, producing the displayed asymptotic. The boundary contour integral must be Abel-regularized; its off-saddle tails are smaller by integration by parts.

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