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Asymptotic theory for third-order differential equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

A. S. A. Al-Hammadi
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Department of Mathematics, University of Bahrain, P.O. Box 32038, Manama, Bahrain.
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We examine the asymptotic form of a fundamental set of solutions of the third-order equation

as x → ∞, where the leading coefficient q is nowhere zero in some interval [a, ∞). The equation is self-adjoint in the case when p, r and iq are real. However, our analysis is not confined to this case, and we generally take the coefficients to be complex-valued.

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Copyright © University College London 1988

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