Solution

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Order applied to this particular differential equation forces the local stability polynomial to agree with the exact exponential through degree :
As its degree is at most , the nonzero coefficient cannot be present for . Therefore
The implication is a necessary stability-polynomial condition; it does not assert that every such polynomial automatically gives the full nonlinear order conditions.

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