Decaying profile for a fourth-order dilation equation

ID: decaying-profile-for-a-fourth-order-dilation-equation

For real , the displayed boundary value problem with as has a solution exactly when . Put . Its unique real solution is
Indeed the Euler differential operator has characteristic roots . Decay retains only the conjugate pair, and the two endpoint conditions determine their sine combination. For negative only one root has negative real part, so the two boundary conditions are incompatible. At zero every solution is a cubic polynomial in , excluding nonzero decaying solutions. Complex exponents thus produce an oscillatory but decaying power-law envelope.

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