scholarly journals On the zeros of some special functions: Differential equations and nicholson-type formulas

1986 ◽  
pp. 155-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. E. Muldoon
Keyword(s):  
Differential Equations ◽  
Special Functions

Studies in multiplicative solutions to linear differential equations

1987 ◽  
Vol 106 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 277-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. M. Arscott
Keyword(s):  
Differential Equation ◽  
Differential Equations ◽  
Linear Differential Equation ◽  
Floquet Theory ◽  
Special Functions ◽  
Linear Differential Equations ◽  
Ordinary Linear Differential Equation ◽  
Closed Path ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Linear Differential

SynopsisGiven an ordinary linear differential equation whose singularities are isolated, a solution is called multiplicative for a closed path C if, when continued analytically along C, it returns to its starting-point merely multiplied by a constant. This paper first classifies such paths into three types, then investigates combinations of two such paths, in which a number of qualitatively different situations can arise. A key result is also given relating to a three-path combination. There are applications to special functions and Floquet theory for periodic equations.

scholarly journals DIFFERENCE ALGEBRAIC RELATIONS AMONG SOLUTIONS OF LINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucia Di Vizio ◽  
Charlotte Hardouin ◽  
Michael Wibmer
Keyword(s):  
Differential Equations ◽  
Characteristic Zero ◽  
Galois Theory ◽  
Structure Theorem ◽  
Special Functions ◽  
Algebraic Groups ◽  
Galois Groups ◽  
Linear Differential Equations ◽  
Linear Differential

We extend and apply the Galois theory of linear differential equations equipped with the action of an endomorphism. The Galois groups in this Galois theory are difference algebraic groups, and we use structure theorems for these groups to characterize the possible difference algebraic relations among solutions of linear differential equations. This yields tools to show that certain special functions are difference transcendent. One of our main results is a characterization of discrete integrability of linear differential equations with almost simple usual Galois group, based on a structure theorem for the Zariski dense difference algebraic subgroups of almost simple algebraic groups, which is a schematic version, in characteristic zero, of a result due to Z. Chatzidakis, E. Hrushovski, and Y. Peterzil.

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