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Carlo Beenakker
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K.S. Kölbig, On the zeros of the incomplete gamma functions. This paper is from 1972, it has a whole list of references to older literature.

It is the aim of this note to recall some of the earlier results (occasionally correcting them), and to present a plot containing a few of the zero trajectories of the function $\gamma(xw, x)$ in the complex $w$-plane ($w = u + iv$), as functions of the real parameter $x$ > 0. It will be seen that these trajectories all lie in a finite region of the $w$-plane, and that they cluster towards a limiting curve as shown by Mahler (1930).

This limiting curve is interesting, it is given by $${\rm Re}\,(w\log w-w+1)=0.$$

Carlo Beenakker
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