Paper 3, Section II, C

Asymptotic Methods
Part II, 2010

Consider the ordinary differential equation

y=(xE)yy^{\prime \prime}=(|x|-E) y

subject to the boundary conditions y(±)=0y(\pm \infty)=0. Write down the general form of the Liouville-Green solutions for this problem for E>0E>0 and show that asymptotically the eigenvalues En,nNE_{n}, n \in \mathbb{N} and En<En+1E_{n}<E_{n+1}, behave as En=O(n2/3)E_{n}=\mathrm{O}\left(n^{2 / 3}\right) for large nn.