Asymptotic dominance by subdominant exponentials

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 460, Issue 2049, 2004, Pages 2629-2636

  Berry, M V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anti Stokes lines; Asymptotic oscillations; Zeros

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIFFRACTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHYSICS;

EID: 17144414113     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2004.1343     Document Type: Article

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