PROGRAM SUMMARY
Title of program:
ANCONT v1.0
Catalogue identifier:
ADMU
Ref. in CPC:
133(2000)76
Distribution format: gzip file
High speed store required:
324K words
Number of bits in a word:
32
Number of lines in distributed program, including test data, etc:
6696
Keywords:
Elementary particle physics, Quantum Chromodynamics,
Mellin transforms, Analytic continuation, Harmonic sums,
Polylogarithms, Nielsen functions, Bernoulli numbers,
Stirling numbers.
Programming language used: Fortran
Computer:
HP-9000/755 workstation .
Nature of physical problem:
Calculation of the analytic continuation of the Mellin transforms to
complex values of N for the basic functions gi(x) emerging in the
splitting and coefficient functions of massless QED and QCD up to
two-loop order.
Method of solution:
Serial representations for complex arguments and approximate polynomial
representations.
Restrictions:
None
Typical running time:
From fractions of a second for individual representations to 3:30
minutes for the test of all options on a HP-9000/755 workstation.