The Complex WKB Method for Difference Equations and Airy Functions

DOI10.1137/18M1228694zbMATH Open1425.39011arXiv1810.04918OpenAlexW2985315974WikidataQ126863523 ScholiaQ126863523MaRDI QIDQ5243248FDOQ5243248

Authors: Alexander Fedotov, Frédéric Klopp 

Publication date: 18 November 2019

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

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.

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

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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)

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