 Stokes line (source code)

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= Stokes line
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With the convention used here, a Stokes line is a ray where competing exponential actions have the same imaginary part. A subdominant exponential can acquire a rapidly changing multiplier there. For $e^{\pm x^2/\varepsilon}$, these rays have $\arg x=m\pi/2$. The <anti-Stokes lines> instead have equal exponential magnitudes.

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