B4.19

Methods of Mathematical Physics | Part II, 2001

Show that 0πeixcostdt\int_{0}^{\pi} \mathrm{e}^{i x \cos t} d t satisfies the differential equation

xy+y+xy=0x y^{\prime \prime}+y^{\prime}+x y=0

and find a second solution, in the form of an integral, for x>0x>0.

Show, by finding the asymptotic behaviour as x+x \rightarrow+\infty, that your two solutions are linearly independent.

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