Uniform asymptotic expansions of solutions of the Mathieu equation and the modified Mathieu equation

By the method of the model equation, uniform asymptotic expansions of the Floquet solutions of the Mathieu equation and two linearly independent solutions of the modified Mathieu equation are obtained for any real values of the separation parameter contained in these equations.Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova AN SSSR, Vol. 62, pp. 60–91, 1976.     

An improved estimate of PSWF approximation and approximation by Mathieu functions

In this paper, an error estimate of spectral approximations by prolate spheroidal wave functions (PSWFs) with explicit dependence on the bandwidth parameter and optimal order of convergence is derived, which improves the existing result in [Chen et al., Spectral methods based on prolate spheroidal wave functions for hyperbolic PDEs, SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 43 (5) (2005) 1912-1933]. The underlying argument is applied to analyze spectral approximations of periodic functions by Mathieu functions, which leads to new estimates featured with explicit dependence on the intrinsic parameter.     

Highly accurate calculation of radial spheroidal functions

A new method for calculating the radial spheroidal functions of the first kind is proposed for the arguments that are greater than unity in modulus. A well-known representation of these functions is refined and used for this purpose. The constructs and the software implementation proposed in the paper provide an efficient tool for the calculation of the functions with a desired accuracy in a wide range of parameters.     

A New Distance-Regular Graph Associated to the Mathieu Group M 10

We construct a bipartite distance-regular graph with intersection array {45, 44, 36, 5; 1, 9, 40, 45} and automorphism group 3⁵ :(2 ×M₁₀) (acting edge-transitively) and discuss its relation to previously known combinatorial structures.     

On quaternionic analysis for the Schrödinger operator with a particular potential and its relation with the Mathieu functions

It has been found recently that there exists a theory of functions with quaternionic values and in two real variables, which is determined by a Cauchy–Riemann‐type operator with quaternionic variable coefficients, and that is intimately related to the so‐called Mathieu equations. In this work, it is all explained as well as some basic facts of the arising quaternionic function theory. We establish analogues of the basic integral formulas of complex analysis such as Borel–Pompeiu's, Cauchy's, and so on, for this version of quaternionic function theory. This theory turns out to be in the same relation with the Schrödinger operator with special potential as the usual holomorphic functions in one complex variable, or quaternionic hyperholomorphic functions, or functions of Clifford analysis, are with the corresponding Laplace operator. Moreover, it is similar to that of α‐hyperholomorphic functions and the Helmholtz operator. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

On a Rank Five Geometry of Meixner for the Mathieu Group M12

We construct a rank five residually connected and firm geometry on which the Mathieu group M ₁₂ acts flag-transitively and residually weakly primitively (RWPRI). The group M ₁₂ is the group of automorphisms of and Aut(M ₁₂) is the correlation group of , in particular is self-dual. The diagram of is the following. Moreover satisfies the conditions (IP)₂ and (2T)₁. As a corollary, we obtain that the (RWPRI+(IP)₂)-rank of M ₁₂ is 5.     

一类非线性延迟微分方程数值解的振动性分析

本文考虑一类非线性延迟微分方程-带有单调造血率的造血模型数值解的振动性.通过研究特征方程根的情况得到数值解振动的条件并且讨论了非振动的数值解的一些性质.为了更有力的说明我们的结果,最后给出了相应的算例.     

On the Growth of Convergence Radii for the Eigenvalues of the Mathieu Equation

It is proved that the convergence radii ρn of the eigenvalues of the Mathieu equation satisfy lim inf ρn/n² > kk′K² = 2.0418., where the modulus k of the complete elliptic integrals is determined by 2E = K.     

Recognizing the Automorphism Groups of Mathieu Groups

It is a well-known fact that characters of a finite group can give important information about the structure of the group. It was also proved by the third author that a finite simple group can be uniquely determined by its character table. Here the authors attempt to investigate how to characterize a finite almost-simple group by using less information of its character table, and successfully characterize the automorphism groups of Mathieu groups by their orders and at most two irreducible character degrees of their character tables.     

Properties of the solutions of the fourth-order Bessel-type differential equation

The structured Bessel-type functions of arbitrary even-order were introduced by Everitt and Markett in 1994; these functions satisfy linear ordinary differential equations of the same even-order. The differential equations have analytic coefficients and are defined on the whole complex plane with a regular singularity at the origin and an irregular singularity at the point of infinity. They are all natural extensions of the classical second-order Bessel differential equation. Further these differential equations have real-valued coefficients on the positive real half-line of the plane, and can be written in Lagrange symmetric (formally self-adjoint) form. In the fourth-order case, the Lagrange symmetric differential expression generates self-adjoint unbounded operators in certain Hilbert function spaces. These results are recorded in many of the papers here given as references. It is shown in the original paper of 1994 that in this fourth-order case one solution exists which can be represented in terms of the classical Bessel functions of order 0 and 1. The existence of this solution, further aided by computer programs in Maple, led to the existence of a linearly independent basis of solutions of the differential equation. In this paper a new proof of the existence of this solution base is given, on using the advanced theory of special functions in the complex plane. The methods lead to the development of analytical properties of these solutions, in particular the series expansions of all solutions at the regular singularity at the origin of the complex plane.     

The stability of the exponential equation

We generalize the well-known Baker's superstability result for exponential mappings with values in the field of complex numbers to the case of an arbitrary commutative complex semisimple Banach algebra. It was shown by Ger that the superstability phenomenon disappears if we formulate the stability question for exponential complex-valued functions in a more natural way. We improve his result by showing that the maximal possible distance of an -approximately exponential function to the set of all exponential functions tends to zero as tends to zero. In order to get this result we have to prove a stability theorem for real-valued functions additive modulo the set of all integers .

     

Exact WKB analysis of a Schrödinger equation with a merging triplet of two simple poles and one simple turning point,II — Its relevance to the Mathieu equation and the Legendre equation

We develop the exact WKB analysis of an M2P1T (merging two simple poles and one simple turning point) Schrödinger equation. In Part II, using a WKB-theoretic transformation to the algebraic Mathieu equation constructed in Part I, we calculate the alien derivative of its Borel transformed WKB solutions at each fixed singular point relevant to the simple poles through the analysis of Borel transformed WKB solutions of the Legendre equations. In the course of the calculation of the alien derivative we make full use of microdifferential operators whose symbols are given by the infinite series that appear in the coefficients of the algebraic Mathieu equation and the Legendre equation.     

Global solutions to the eikonal equation

We study structural stability of smoothness of the maximal solution to the geometric eikonal equation on (R^d,G)$({\mathbb{R}}^d,G)$, d?2$d?2$. This is within the framework of order zero metrics G. For a subclass of these metrics we show existence, stability as well as precise asymptotics for derivatives of the solution. These results are applicable to examples arising in Schrödinger operator theory.     

Instability of near-extreme solutions to the Whitham equation

The Whitham equation is a model for the evolution of small-amplitude, unidirectional waves of all wavelengths in shallow water. It has been shown to accurately model the evolution of waves in laboratory experiments. We compute -periodic traveling wave solutions of the Whitham equation and numerically study their stability with a focus on solutions with large steepness. We show that the Hamiltonian oscillates at least twice as a function of wave steepness when the solutions are sufficiently steep. We show that a superharmonic instability is created at each extremum of the Hamiltonian and that between each extremum the stability spectra undergo similar bifurcations. Finally, we compare these results with those from the Euler equations.     

A New Characterization of the Mathieu Groups and Alternating Groups with Degrees Primes

In the past thirty years, several kinds of quantitative characterizations of finite groups especially finite simple groups have been investigated by many mathematicians. Such as quantitative characterizations by group order and element orders, by element orders alone, by the set of sizes of conjugacy classes, by dimensions of irreducible characters, by the set of orders of maximal abelian subgroups and so on. Here the authors continue this topic in a new area tending to characterize finite simple groups with given orders by some special conjugacy class sizes, such as largest conjugacy class sizes, smallest conjugacy class sizes greater than 1 and so on.     

Exact WKB analysis of a Schrödinger equation with a merging triplet of two simple poles and one simple turning point,I — Its WKB-theoretic transformation to the Mathieu equation

We develop the exact WKB analysis of an M2P1T (merging two simple poles and one simple turning point) Schrödinger equation. Our emphasis is put on the analysis of the singularity structure of its Borel transformed WKB solutions near fixed singular points relevant to the two simple poles contained in the potential of the equation. In Part I, we focus our attention on the construction and analytic properties of a WKB-theoretic transformation that transforms an M2P1T equation to an algebraic Mathieu equation. That transformation plays an important role in Part II ([7]) when we discuss the singularity structure of Borel transformed WKB solutions of an M2P1T equation.     

The average number of solutions of the Diophantine equation U 2 + V 2=W 3 and related arithmetic functions

For the number of integer solutions of the title equation, withW≤;x (x a large parameter), an asymptotics of the form Ax log x + Bx + O(x ^1/2 (log x)³ (loglog x)²) is established. This is achieved in a general setting which furnishes applications to some other natural arithmetic functions. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Transitory minimal solutions of hypergeometric recursions and pseudoconvergence of associated continued fractions

Three term recurrence relations can be used for computing recursively a great number of special functions. Depending on the asymptotic nature of the function to be computed, different recursion directions need to be considered: backward for minimal solutions and forward for dominant solutions. However, some solutions interchange their role for finite values of with respect to their asymptotic behaviour and certain dominant solutions may transitorily behave as minimal. This phenomenon, related to Gautschi's anomalous convergence of the continued fraction for ratios of confluent hypergeometric functions, is shown to be a general situation which takes place for recurrences with negative and changing sign once. We analyze the anomalous convergence of the associated continued fractions for a number of different recurrence relations (modified Bessel functions, confluent and Gauss hypergeometric functions) and discuss the implication of such transitory behaviour on the numerical stability of recursion.