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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2006 ii Paper 4 31B b Solution by
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Under the usual smoothness assumptions for WKB approximation, the strict positive lower bound on excludes turning point. Put . The oscillatory approximation is . The zero boundary value at the origin forces , and the one at the right end gives the quantization conditionHere is large and is an arbitrary normalization constant. Nonzero solutions exist only at the eigenvalues, not for every arbitrary large . The approximation concerns the leading phase and envelope.
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