Solutions of this equation are the Scorer functions and can be found by the method of variation of parameters (§1.13(iii)). The general solution is given by
where and
are arbitrary constants,
and
are any two linearly independent solutions of Airy’s
equation (9.2.1), and
is any particular solution of
(9.12.1). Standard particular solutions are
where
and
are entire functions of
.
is a numerically satisfactory companion to the complementary
functions
and
on the interval
.
is a numerically satisfactory companion to
and
on the interval
.
In , numerically satisfactory sets of solutions are given by
and
If
or
, and
is the modified Bessel function (§10.25(ii)), then
where the last integral is a Cauchy principal value (§1.4(v)).
where the integration contour separates the poles
of from those of
.
As , and with
denoting an arbitrary small positive
constant,
All zeros, real or complex, of and
are simple.
Neither nor
has real zeros.
has no nonnegative real zeros and
has exactly
one nonnegative real zero, given by
. Both
and
have an infinity of negative real zeros,
and they are interlaced.
For the above properties and further results, including the distribution of complex zeros, asymptotic approximations for the numerically large real or complex zeros, and numerical tables see Gil et al. (2003c).