Hello everyone,
I am experiencing something very strange. As a result of a long calculation I obtain combination of functions of the type
Exp[-b t] Erfc(b x- t/x), where Erfc is the complimentary error function, b and t real parameters (b>0) and x some one dimensional variable.
I order to exhibit some symmetry I would like to use the identity Erfc(z)=1-Erf(z), where now Erf is the error function.
If I plot Erfc(b x- t/x) and 1-Erf(b x- t/x) as a verication, it is clear that things work.
However, plotting Exp[-b t] ( 1-Erf(b x- t/x) ) things get crazy for t<0, where the plot shows some weird oscillatory behaviour and goes rapidly to zero. In the attached picture, the plot shows:
(Red) Exp[-b t] Erfc(b x- t/x)
(Black) Exp[-b t] ( 1 - Erf(b x- t/x) )
So I am kind of puzled here ... am I doing something trivially wrong or is it a bug of Mathematica ?
Any help is more than welcome
Thanks
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