Complex WKB method for 3-level scattering systems

Asymptotic Analysis

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 91-109

  Joye, Alain ^a   Pfister, Charles Edouard ^b  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adiabatic approximations; Exponential asymptotics; N level S matrix; Semiclassical analysis; Singular perturbations; Turning point theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041970048     PISSN: 09217134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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