Monotone increasing solutions of the Painlevé 1 equation y″ = y2+x and their role in the stability of the plasma-sheath transition

DOI10.1017/S0956792502004977zbMath1027.34044MaRDI QIDQ4796926

Marshall Slemrod

Publication date: 14 January 2004

Published in: European Journal of Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

stability; Painlevé equation; monotone increasing solutions; plasma-sheath transition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

34A34: Nonlinear ordinary differential equations and systems

34C11: Growth and boundedness of solutions to ordinary differential equations

82D10: Statistical mechanics of plasmas

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