Stirling correction by Gaussian moments

ID: stirling-correction-by-gaussian-moments

In Laplace method for the Gamma function, scaling gives a standard Gaussian integral. The first even correction polynomial is . Its expectation under a unit-variance centered Gaussian is . The amplitude expansion contributes to this coefficient as well as the phase expansion; expanding only the latter gives the wrong Stirling formula correction.

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