4.II
Part II, 2008
The Bessel equation of order is
Here, is taken to be an integer, with . The transformation converts (1) to the form
where
Find two linearly independent solutions of the form
where are constants, with , and and are to be determined. Find recurrence relationships for the .
Find the first two terms of two linearly independent Liouville-Green solutions of (2) for valid in a neighbourhood of . Relate these solutions to those of the form (3).