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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2014 iii Paper 74 1 b i Solution by
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Apply the stationary phase method to the real part of the exponential integral for the Bessel function of the first kind. With fixed, use oscillatory phase and oscillatory integral amplitude . The unique stationary point is , with second derivative . Its contribution isThe leading endpoint terms of the exponential integral are imaginary and do not contribute to its real part. Hence the large-argument asymptotic expansion of the Bessel function of the first kind isThis is an additive asymptotic formula: a relative ratio is inappropriate at zeros of the leading cosine. The envelope decreases like while the oscillation frequency approaches one.
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