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The second solution of the Mathieu equation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

E. L. Ince
Affiliation:
Trinity College

Extract

The fact that the Mathieu equation, and, as was proved in the preceding paper, the more general Hill equation, can admit of but one solution of period π or 2π, suggests the problem of determining how far the second solution deviates from periodicity when the first solution has either the period π or the period 2π

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1926

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