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Invariants for reducible systems of meromorphic differential equations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2009
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With differential equations in the neighbourhood of an irregular singular point, it sometimes happens that formal solutions may converge. For example, this occurs for Bessel's equation at∞ when the parameter is half of an odd integer. In addition, there are some classical theorems of Perron and Lettenmeyer which give sufficient conditions for the existence of linearly independent analytic solutions at (generally) an irregular singular point. Using the principle of reduction of order, such a solution may be used to transform the differential equation into one whose coefficient matrix is triangularly blocked with an (n – 1) and 1-block on the diagonal. The solutions of the given differential equation can thus be obtained by solving a lower dimensional differential equation plus quadrature.
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