9. Cotangents and tangents, cosecants and secants


Cotangents

From the results obtained in the previous section we can easily deduce

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Using the (3.9) to express the hyperbolic cotangent, we have

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If we explicitly write some addends of the sum we have

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Finally, using a more formal and compact notation:

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The series expansion of the circular cotangent can be obtained from the (9.1), (7.21) and (7.22)

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In a more compact way:

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Tangents

To deduce the series expansion of the hyperbolic tangent we can use the equality Eqn6.gif

In fact

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So, using twice the series expansion of the hyperbolic cotangent, we get

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If we calculate explicitly the coefficients, we have

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In a more compact way:

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To have the series expansion of the circular tangent we use the equality Eqn10.gif

We get

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If we calculate explicitly the coefficients, we have

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In a more compact way:

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Cosecants

Since

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the series expansion of the hyperbolic cosecant can be obtained using the series expansions of the hyperbolic tangent and cotangent. From (9.1) and (9.3) we get

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More explicitly

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From (7.22) e (9.7) we get

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and, in more compact way

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Secants

The hyperbolic secant can be expressed as a function of the exponential

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This expression of the hyperbolic secant coincides with that of the function s(x) defined in (8.2) of the previous page, then

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where En is the n-th Euler's number. Since, for odd indices these numbers are zero, we can more economically write

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From the Euler's formulas, the circular secant can be expressed as

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The even powers of the imaginary unit oscillate between 1 and -1, then

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Series expansions in WolframAlpha.