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A third integrating factor for indefinite integrals of special functions
2020
An integrating factor f ~ x is presented involving the terms in y ′ ′ x and q x y x of the general homogenous second-order linear ordinary differential equation. The new integrating factors obey se...
Floquet theory: exponential perturbative treatment
2001
We develop a Magnus expansion well suited for Floquet theory of linear ordinary differential equations with periodic coefficients. We build up a recursive scheme to obtain the terms in the new expansion and give an explicit sufficient condition for its convergence. The method and formulae are applied to an illustrative example from quantum mechanics.
Expansions of the solutions of the confluent Heun equation in terms of the incomplete Beta and the Appell generalized hypergeometric functions
2015
We construct several expansions of the solutions of the confluent Heun equation in terms of the incomplete Beta functions and the Appell generalized hypergeometric functions of two variables of the first kind. The coefficients of different expansions obey four-, five-, or six-term recurrence relations that are reduced to ones involving less number of terms only in a few exceptional cases. The conditions for deriving finite-sum solutions via termination of the series are discussed.