Asymptotic solutions of linear ordinary differential equations at an irregular singularity of rank 1 (Q1383447)

New existence theorems are constructed for asymptotic solutions of linear ordinary differential equations of arbitrary order in the neighborhood of an irregular singularity of rank 1 with distinct characteristic values. Let (1) \(L(y)= 0\) be an equation of the above type and \(\Lambda\) be the set of characteristic values of (1). The author builds on the base of \(\Lambda\) a set of canonical sectors \(S= \{S_\lambda: \lambda\in\Lambda\}\) and proves the following main theorem. \(\forall\lambda\in \Lambda\) there exists a unique solution \(w_\lambda\) of (1) such that \[ w_\lambda\sim e^{\lambda z}z^{\mu_\lambda} \sum^\infty_{s= 0} {a_{s\lambda}\over z^s} \] as \(z\to\infty\), uniformly in any closed sector properly interior to \(S_\lambda\). Furthermore, this asymptotic expansion can be differentiated \(n-1\) times under the same circumstances, and the \(n\) solutions \(w_\lambda\) are linearly independent.