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The Dawson function obeys $F_D^{\prime }+2z{F}_D=1$ by differentiation. Its large-real-argument asymptotic expansion begins $F_D(z)=1/(2z)+1/(4z^3)+O(z^{-5})$. This inverse-power behavior contrasts with the separate exponentially growing factors in its definition.

The two Hankel functions $H_{\nu }^{(1)}=J_{\nu }+i{Y}_{\nu }$ and $H_{\nu }^{(2)}=J_{\nu }-i{Y}_{\nu }$ solve the Bessel differential equation. Their large-argument forms distinguish outgoing and incoming oscillations and have sector-dependent asymptotic expansions.

For fixed real $\nu$ as $z\to +\infty$, the Modified Bessel function of the first kind and Modified Bessel function of the second kind have asymptotic expansionsThe expansion and its error bounds establish actual growing and decaying solutions, beyond formal matching of a differential equation. These formulas are documented in NIST DLMF, equations 10.40.1–2.

A divergent asymptotic expansion should usually be stopped near its smallest term rather than summed indefinitely. For factorial terms $n!z^{-n}$ the cutoff has $n=|z|+O(1)$. This exposes exponentially small contributions and the Stokes phenomenon. The smallest term alone does not always bound the remainder, especially when a saddle meets a pole.

An overlap region is a parameter-dependent range in which two neighboring asymptotic expansions have simultaneously ordered common limits. Between scales ${ϵ}^2$ and $ϵ$, it is ${ϵ}^2\ll x\ll ϵ$: the narrow coordinate tends to infinity while the wider coordinate tends to zero. Matching uses these limiting descriptions, not an assertion that either expansion is uniform at all values of the other's scaled variable.