scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1182692

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Authors Andrei Martínez Finkelshtein, A. Zarzo

Publication date 2 February 1999

zbMATH Keywords

explicit upper and lower boundshypergeometric equationsWKB approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Theoretical approximation of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34A45) Oscillation theory, zeros, disconjugacy and comparison theory for ordinary differential equations (34C10) Singular perturbations, turning point theory, WKB methods for ordinary differential equations (34E20)

Review text

This article concerns the WKB approximation for the number \(N_y(I)\) of zeros of a nontrivial solution \(y\) to the linear differential equation \[ - y= fy\tag{1} \] in a real interval \(I\), where \(f\) denotes a positive continuous function in \(I\). The main theorem contains explicit upper and lower bounds for \(N_y(I)/M(I)\), with \(M(I)= \pi^{-1}\int_I f^{1/2}\) (WKB approximation). The theorem is applied to a set of \[ -y= f_\lambda y,\leqno{(2)_\lambda} \] \(\lambda\in\Lambda\), whose index set \(\Lambda\) has a limit point \(\lambda^*\) for which the WKB approximation for \((2)_{\lambda^*}\) is exact. Three corollaries give convergence properties of normalized zero-counting measures for \((2)_\lambda\) as \(\lambda\to\lambda^*\). The results are applied to hypergeometric differential equations, including the Hermité, Jacobi, and Laguerre types. The last section contains a conjecture on the asymptotic distribution of the complex zeros of solutions to hypergeometric equations. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0892.00034].

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