Asymptotic behavior of solutions of \(x''=e^{\alpha\lambda t}x^{1+\alpha}\) where \(-1<{\alpha}<0\) (Q1411271)

The paper is devoted to ordinary differential equation \[ x''=e^{\alpha\lambda t}x^{1+\alpha}. \] The main results concern the initial value problem \[ x(t_0)=a,\;x'(t_0)=b. \] The author studies the domain of definition and asymptotic expansion of solutions. His main results are formulated in two different cases given by conditions on the parameter values (Theorems I and II). Theorem I says that under appropriate conditions on the parameters, the solution is well-defined on the whole real line and in neighborhoods of \(\pm\infty\) it admits an expansion in series. The expansions at \(+\infty\) and \(-\infty\) are different in general. Moreover, in one of the cases considered in Theorem I the expansion near \(-\infty\) is given not by a series, but just by an asymptotic formula. Theorem II says that under some different conditions on the parameter values, the solution is well-defined on an interval \((\omega_-,+\infty)\), \(\omega_->-\infty\), and admits an expansion similar to the one mentioned above at each boundary point of the domain of definition (the expansion depends on the choice of the boundary point).