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vjraghavan
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I was going through http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LaguerreDifferentialEquation.html" in Wolfram which gives brief details about finding a power series solution of the Laguerre Differential Equation. I was reading the special case when v = 0.
I read earlier from Differential Equations by Lomen and Mark that a power series (about x=x0) solution of an ODE exists when all polynomial coefficients are analytic at x=x0. The Laguerre equation has coefficients that are not analytic at x=x0=0 and yet this tries to find series solution around x0 = 0.
My questions:
1 Will this power series converge?
2 Should not we be using the Frobenius method to solve this equation?
3 Should not this have two linearly independent solutions?
I read earlier from Differential Equations by Lomen and Mark that a power series (about x=x0) solution of an ODE exists when all polynomial coefficients are analytic at x=x0. The Laguerre equation has coefficients that are not analytic at x=x0=0 and yet this tries to find series solution around x0 = 0.
My questions:
1 Will this power series converge?
2 Should not we be using the Frobenius method to solve this equation?
3 Should not this have two linearly independent solutions?
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