Thursday, November 9, 9:30 am in room MTH 3206, University of Maryland,
College Park
Computation of Stokes multipliers by boundary-value methods
Prof. Frank W.J. Olver
Institute for Physical Science and Technology and Department of Mathematics
University of Maryland
olver@bessel.umd.edu
Stokes multipliers are the coefficients in the connection formulas
for asymptotic solutions of ordinary differential equations in
the neighborhood of an irregular singularity. The evaluation of these
coefficients is a long-standing problem, going back to G.D. Birkhoff.
This talk begins by outlining recent developments in the general
asymptotic theory of linear differential equations, and then introduces
powerful numerical methods for computing the Stokes multipliers.
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