What is the best asymptotic approximation of the inverse $x=g(y)$ of $y = x^x$ for large $x$? [Clearly, if $x>e$, then $f(x) > e^x$ implies $g(x) < \log x$.]



Approximately Invert x^x
I don't know how accurate you want to be, but a quick and dirty approximate inversion of $x\log x$ is $x/\log x$. So if $y=x^x$ then $\log y\approx x\log x$, so $x\approx\log y/\log\log y$. But perhaps you want something better than this.


