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The summability of formal solutions of functional equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

J. D. Gray
J. D. Gray
Affiliation:
University of N.S.W., Kensington N.S.W.
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In 1923 Nörlund [1] considered the difference equation

and showed that the formal solution of (1)

obtained by iteration, although in general divergent, is in fact Abel summable to a solution of (1). He writes the arbitary constant c as

and thus the “principal solution” of the difference equation is

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , May 1967 , pp. 141 - 144
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1967

References

[1]Nörlund, N. E., ‘Mémoire sur le calcul aux différences finies’. Acta Math. 44 (1923), 71–211.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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