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Some Useful Properties of Modified Bessel Functions of the First Kind

I have to deal with Modified Bessel functions of the first kind frequently in my research. Here I list some useful properties of them for future reference.

$$I_0'(x) = I_1(x)$$
$$I_1'(x) = \frac{I_0(x)+I_2(x)}{2} $$
$$\frac{I_1(x)}{I_0(x)}\uparrow \Leftrightarrow I_0(x)(I_0(x)+I_2(x))-2I_1^2(x)>0,\forall x>0$$
$$\frac{I_1(x)-I_2(x)}{I_0(x)-I_1(x)}\uparrow$$

where \(I_n(x)\) is the modified Bessel function of order \(n\).

For more properties about modified Bessel functions of the first kind, please refer to Wolfram MathWorld.

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