On the convergence of WKB approximations of the damped Mathieu equation

DOI10.1063/1.5145267MaRDI QIDQ5000207zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Dwight Nwaigwe

Publication date 9 July 2021

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.11559

zbMATH Keywords

convergenceWKB approximationsdamped Mathieu equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special ordinary differential equations (Mathieu, Hill, Bessel, etc.) (34B30) Singular perturbations, turning point theory, WKB methods for ordinary differential equations (34E20)

Abstract: Consider the differential equation $mddotx+gammadotx-xepsiloncos(omegat)=0$, $0leqtleqT$. The form of the fundamental set of solutions are determined by Floquet theory. In the limit as $mo0$ we can apply WKB theory to get first order approximations of this fundamental set. WKB theory states that this approximation gets better as $mo0$ in the sense that the difference in sup norm is bounded as function of $m$ for a given $T$. However, convergence of the periodic parts and exponential parts are not addressed. We show that there is convergence to these components. The asymptotic error for the characteristic exponents are $O(m^2)$ and $O(m)$ for the periodic parts.

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