One-third-power scaling at a nonlinear turning endpoint

ID: one-third-power-scaling-at-a-nonlinear-turning-endpoint

In , balancing all three terms where the outer branches and meet gives the displayed dominant balance and the inner equation . Matching to and writing gives . Its linearized decaying correction is an Airy function; the growing correction is excluded. Matching to zero instead gives , whose nonzero Airy function combinations oscillate. Thus the acceptable matching branches differ qualitatively at the turning endpoint.

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