“…The research of many authors has led to a large body of knowledge on the previously mentioned special functions, as well as on new ones. In particular, incomplete Hankel functions have been adopted to determine, in closed form, the spatial distribution of progressive and evanescent wave contributions excited in truncated cylindrical electromagnetic structures (Cicchetti et al, ), while incomplete modified spherical Bessel functions (Caratelli & Yarovoy, ; Caratelli et al, ) have been used to analyze the transient electromagnetic field radiated in Fraunhofer region by a general antenna, thus providing a better understanding and meaningful insight into the physical mechanisms, which are responsible for the behavior of three‐dimensional radiators (Caratelli & Yarovoy, ). More recently, higher‐order special functions have been introduced in Cicchetti et al () and used, in combination with incomplete Hankel functions, to derive the exact analytical solution of the electromagnetic field distribution supported by uniform currents excited on Cartesian quadrants.…”