Paper 3, Section II, A

Methods
Part IB, 2010

(a) Put the equation

xd2udx2+dudx+λxu=0,0x1x \frac{d^{2} u}{d x^{2}}+\frac{d u}{d x}+\lambda x u=0, \quad 0 \leqslant x \leqslant 1

into Sturm-Liouville form.

(b) Suppose un(x)u_{n}(x) are eigenfunctions such that un(x)u_{n}(x) are bounded as xx tends to zero and

xd2undx2+dundx+λnxun=0,0x1x \frac{d^{2} u_{n}}{d x^{2}}+\frac{d u_{n}}{d x}+\lambda_{n} x u_{n}=0, \quad 0 \leqslant x \leqslant 1

Identify the weight function w(x)w(x) and the most general boundary conditions on un(x)u_{n}(x) which give the orthogonality relation

(λmλn)01um(x)w(x)un(x)dx=0\left(\lambda_{m}-\lambda_{n}\right) \int_{0}^{1} u_{m}(x) w(x) u_{n}(x) d x=0

(c) The equation

xd2ydx2+dydx+xy=0,x>0x \frac{d^{2} y}{d x^{2}}+\frac{d y}{d x}+x y=0, \quad x>0

has a solution J0(x)J_{0}(x) and a second solution which is not bounded at the origin. The zeros of J0(x)J_{0}(x) arranged in ascending order are jn,n=1,2,j_{n}, n=1,2, \ldots. Given that un(1)=0u_{n}(1)=0, show that the eigenvalues of the Sturm-Liouville problem in (b) are λ=jn2,n=1,2,\lambda=j_{n}^{2}, n=1,2, \ldots

(d) Using the differential equations for J0(αx)J_{0}(\alpha x) and J0(βx)J_{0}(\beta x) and integration by parts, show that

01J0(αx)J0(βx)xdx=βJ0(α)J0(β)αJ0(β)J0(α)α2β2(αβ)\int_{0}^{1} J_{0}(\alpha x) J_{0}(\beta x) x d x=\frac{\beta J_{0}(\alpha) J_{0}^{\prime}(\beta)-\alpha J_{0}(\beta) J_{0}^{\prime}(\alpha)}{\alpha^{2}-\beta^{2}} \quad(\alpha \neq \beta)