File:MittagLeffler.gif

Summary

Description
English: Plots of a Mittag-Leffler function for the parameter alpha running from 1 to zero, i.e. from an exponential to a polynomially decaying function.
Date
Source https://twitter.com/j_bertolotti/status/1041686751650213888
Author Jacopo Bertolotti
Permission
(Reusing this file)
https://twitter.com/j_bertolotti/status/1030470604418428929

Mathematica 11.0 code

xmax = 10;
plots = Table[Show[
    Plot[1/(1 + z), {z, 0, xmax}, PlotStyle -> {Dashed, Gray}, 
     PlotRange -> All],
    Plot[E^-z, {z, 0, xmax}, PlotStyle -> {Dashed, Gray}, 
     PlotRange -> All],
    Plot[MittagLefflerE[a, -x], {x, 0, xmax}, 
     PlotStyle -> {Black, Thick}, PlotRange -> All], 
    PlotRange -> {0, 1}, AxesOrigin -> {0, 0}, Axes -> False, 
    Frame -> True, FrameLabel -> {"x"}, LabelStyle -> {Medium, Bold},
    Epilog -> {Text[
       Style[StringForm[
         "\!\(\*SubscriptBox[\(E\), \(``\)]\)(-x)=\!\(\*SubscriptBox[\
\(\[Sum]\), \(k\)]\)\!\(\*FractionBox[SuperscriptBox[\((\(-x\))\), \
\(k\)], \(\[CapitalGamma] \((``k + 1)\)\)]\)", a, a], Medium, 
        FontFamily -> "DejaVu Serif"], {5, 0.9}]
      ,
      Text[
       Style["\!\(\*SuperscriptBox[\(e\), \(-x\)]\)", Medium, 
        FontFamily -> "DejaVu Serif", Gray], {0.9, 0.2}]
      ,
      Text[
       Style["\!\(\*FractionBox[\(1\), \(1 + x\)]\)", Medium, 
        FontFamily -> "DejaVu Serif", Gray], {3, 0.4}]
      }
    ], {a, 1, 0.001, -0.01}];
ListAnimate[plots]

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