Absence of zeros and asymptotic error estimates for Airy and parabolic cylinder functions

DOI10.4310/CMS.2014.V12.N1.A8MaRDI QIDQ2017237zbMATHFDO

Authors Felix Finster, Joel Smoller

Publication date 25 June 2014

Published in Communications in Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.6861

zbMATH Keywords

Airy functionsasymptotic error estimatesparabolic cylinder functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bessel and Airy functions, cylinder functions, ({}_0F_1) (33C10) Asymptotic properties of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34D05) Confluent hypergeometric functions, Whittaker functions, ({}_1F_1) (33C15) Asymptotic expansions of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34E05)

Abstract: We derive WKB approximations for a class of Airy and parabolic cylinder functions in the complex plane, including quantitative error bounds. We prove that all zeros of the Airy function lie on a ray in the complex plane, and that the parabolic cylinder functions have no zeros. We also analyze the Airy and Airy-WKB limit of the parabolic cylinder functions.

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