Paper 3, Section II, A
(a) State Watson's lemma for the case when all the functions and variables involved are real, and use it to calculate the asymptotic approximation as for the integral , where
(b) The Bessel function of the first kind of order has integral representation
where is the Gamma function, and is in general a complex variable. The complex version of Watson's lemma is obtained by replacing with the complex variable , and is valid for and , for some such that . Use this version to derive an asymptotic expansion for as . For what values of is this approximation valid?
[Hint: You may find the substitution useful.]
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