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We analyze the Krawtchouk polynomials K(n,x,N,p,q) asymptotically. We use singular perturbation methods to analyze them for N large with appropriate scalings of the two variables x and n. In particular, the WKB method and asymptotic…
Spin-weighted spheroidal harmonics play a central role in the mathematical description of diverse physical phenomena, including black-hole perturbation theory and wave scattering. We present a novel and compact derivation of the asymptotic…
Asymptotic behaviour of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of a stiff problem is described in the case of the fourth-order ordinary differential operator. Considering the stiffness coefficient that depends on a small parameter epsilon and…
The WKB approximation plays an essential role in the development of quantum mechanics and various important results have been obtained from it. In this paper, we introduce another method, {\it the so-called uniform asymptotic…
Using the exact WKB analysis of the higher-order differential equations, we analyze the asymmetry in dynamical particle production of a complex scalar field. The solution requires the Stokes phenomena of the fourth-order differential…
The problem of finding the large order asymptotics for the eigenfunction perturbation theory in quantum mechanics is studied. The relation between the wave function argument x and the number of perturbation theory order k that allows us to…
The higher-order Stokes phenomenon can emerge in the asymptotic analysis of many problems governed by singular perturbations. Indeed, over the last two decades, the phenomena has appeared in many physical applications, from acoustic and…
We investigate the strong asymptotics of Heine-Stieltjes polynomials - polynomial solutions of a second order differential equations with complex polynomial coefficients. The solution is given in terms of critical measures (saddle points of…
We present a method to calculate the asymptotic behavior of eigenfunctions of Schr\"odinger operators that also works at the threshold of the essential spectrum. It can be viewed as a higher order correction to the well-known WKB method…
We analyze the problem of calculating the solutions and the spectrum of a string with arbitrary density and fixed ends. We build a perturbative scheme which uses a basis of WKB-type functions and obtain explicit expressions for the…
We study the ODE/IM correspondence for the ordinary differential equation associated with the affine Lie algebra $E_6^{(1)}$. The WKB expansion of the solution of the ODE is performed by the diagonalization method, and the period integrals…
The mergings of energy levels associated with the breaking of PT symmetry in the model of Bender and Boettcher, and in its generalisation to incorporate a centrifugal term, are analysed in detail. Even though conventional WKB techniques…
Following earlier studies, several new features of singular perturbation theory for one-dimensional quantum anharmonic oscillators are computed by exact WKB analysis; former results are thus validated.
In many physical problems it is not possible to find an exact solution. However, when some parameter in the problem is small, one can obtain an approximate solution by expanding in this parameter. This is the basis of perturbative methods,…
In this paper, we study the asymptotic behavior and connection problem of Painlev\'e I (PI) equation through a detailed analysis of the Stokes multipliers associated with its solutions. Focusing on the regime where the derivative at the…
$k$-inflation represents the most general single-field inflation, in which the perturbations usually obey an equation of motion with a time-dependent sound speed. In this paper, we study the observational predictions of the $k$-inflation by…
In this paper we consider eigenvalues asymptotics of the energy operator in the one of the most interesting models of quantum physics, describing an interaction between two-level system and harmonic oscillator. The energy operator of this…
Quantum effects in a system of coupled atomic and molecular Bose-Einstein condensates in the framework of a two-mode model are studied numerically and analytically, using the discrete WKB approach. In contrast to the mean-field…
In the framework of the deformed quantum mechanics with minimal length, we consider the motion of a non-relativistic particle in a homogeneous external field. We find the integral representation for the physically acceptable wave function…
We consider an $n\times n$ system of ODEs on $\mathbb{P}^1$ with a simple pole $A$ at $z=0$ and a double pole $u={\rm diag}(u_1, \dots, u_n)$ at $z=\infty$. This is the simplest situation in which the monodromy data of the system are…