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Holomorphic solutions about an irregular singular point of an ordinary linear differential equation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

C. E. M. Pearce
Affiliation:
Department of Applied MathematicsThe University of Adelaide Adelaide, S. A. 5001, Australia
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Abstract

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It is shown that that an ordinary linear differential equation may possess a holomorphic solution in a neighbourhood of an irregular singular point even though the usual linearly independent solutions corresponding to the two roots of the indicial equation both have zero radius of convergence.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1985

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