The Complex WKB Method for Difference Equations and Airy Functions

DOI10.1137/18M1228694MaRDI QIDQ5243248zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Alexander Fedotov, Frédéric Klopp

Publication date 18 November 2019

Published in SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04918

zbMATH Keywords

difference equationsturning pointWKB method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bessel and Airy functions, cylinder functions, ({}_0F_1) (33C10) Discrete version of topics in analysis (39A12) Difference equations in the complex domain (39A45)

Abstract: We consider the difference Schr{"o}dinger equation $psi$(z + h) + $psi$(z -- h) + v(z)$psi$(z) = 0 where z is a complex variable, h > 0 is a parameter, and v is an analytic function. As h $ightarrow$ 0 analytic solutions to this equation have a standard quasiclassical behavior near the points where v(z) = $pm$2. We study analytic solutions near the points z 0 satisfying v(z 0) = $pm$2 and v (z 0) = 0. For the finite difference equation, these points are the natural analogues of the simple turning points defined for the differential equation --$psi$ (z) + v(z)$psi$(z) = 0. In an h-independent neighborhood of such a point, we derive uniform asymptotic expansions for analytic solutions to the difference equation.

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