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Two inequalities for parabolic cylinder functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

F. W. J. Olver
Affiliation:
The National Physical Laboratory Teddington

Extract

In this paper upper bounds are established for the principal solution of the differential equation

and its derivative, for unrestricted values of the complex variable t and the complex parameter μ. The results may have little interest in their own right, but they are of great value in developing the asymptotic theory of linear second-order differential equations in a domain containing two turning points. Equation (1·1) is the simplest example of a differential equation of this type.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1961

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