Volume no :6, Issue no: 2, November (2011)

ON THE DISTRIBUTION SOLUTIONS TO ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS WITH POLYNOMIAL COEFFICIENTS ON THE REAL LINE

Author's: G. I. MIRUMBE, V. A. SSEMBATYA, RIKARD BØGVAD and JAN ERIK BJÖRK
Pages: [135] - [155]
Received Date: November 30, 2011
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Abstract

Given the following ordinary differential equation:

(0.1)

where is a distribution, are polynomials, which in general may have complex coefficients, and is the first order derivation operator with respect to the variable x.

We prove using analytic theory tools that the dimension of the solution space in the space of distributions is where the are the multiplicities of the real roots of the leading polynomial coefficient This result is an extension of a similar result highlighted by Mandai [6].

Keywords

boundary values, distribution solution, characteristic exponents, locally Fuchsian, exact sequences.