Multiplying the inflaton equation by gives
Comparison with yields , and therefore
Insert
Matching powers of requires , so . Writing , the scalar equation and Friedmann equation give
Thus
Existence with positive potential requires , or . Accelerated expansion requires , hence
Using
we see that is generally a simple pole, inherited from . A cancellation occurs exactly when is a nonpositive integer. Thus is always a simple pole; for , is removable when is one of , and otherwise is a simple pole.
For any , choose with and define
The recurrence makes this independent of and agrees with the original integral where . It is the desired analytic continuation away from the listed points.
Integration by parts, or the identities obtained by splitting , gives
Therefore
The substitution gives . Direct integration gives
For and constant death rate ,
Thus
A separable solution exists with this exponent, and it grows precisely when
Substitution into the renewal boundary condition and cancellation of gives the Euler-Lotka equation
This is the necessary condition selecting the growth exponent .
Put . Separation gives
for a constant . Hence
The boundary condition says that all newborn individuals enter at age zero, and that their influx equals the total birth rate obtained by summing the age-specific births over the population.
Let be the symmetric Dirichlet second-difference matrix. Its eigenvalues are nonpositive, so every eigenvalue of
has modulus at most one. Thus .
Insert the exact smooth solution into the scheme. The local truncation error per step has discrete norm , from the order-three trapezoidal time residual and the order-two centred spatial residual. If is the grid error, stability and iteration give
There are at most steps and , hence
This proves convergence for every without invoking the Lax equivalence theorem.
For the discrete Fourier mode , the centred second difference has multiplier . Hence the amplification factor is
For every , . The discrete Parseval identity then shows directly that the discrete norm cannot increase at any time step, proving unconditional stability for the Cauchy problem.
Taking the squared modulus and using gives
The incident wavevector makes an angle with the downward vertical, so . Substitution gives the required formula.
Matching at first expresses the middle solution in terms of . Propagating its value and derivative across the layer of thickness uses the transfer matrix
Matching this result to and at , then eliminating , gives
Continuity of normal velocity and pressure at each density interface requires continuity of and at . These four conditions determine the four unknown amplitudes.
Substitution of the monochromatic ansatz gives
Thus the outer solutions oscillate with and the middle solutions are combinations of and . The incident wave has phase ; its group velocity is upward, whereas the reflected sign has downward group velocity. The transmitted wave must again use the upward-energy sign. This gives exactly the three forms stated.
The similarity form gives
Using the outer pressure gradient in the correctly written radial boundary-layer equation gives
No slip and matching to the sink require and . The boundary-layer flux is of order , relative to the sink flux it is
Mass conservation therefore requires an outer correction of this relative size, which is small in the assumed region.
The definitions through the Stokes stream function give
so incompressibility is automatic.
Balancing inertia with viscosity gives
The streamfunction scale is , motivating
The sink speed scales as , so the Reynolds number is . The approximation applies in the high-Reynolds-number region . Radial inertia scales as , so the radial pressure gradient has the same dependence.

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