Paper 3, Section II, B

Asymptotic Methods
Part II, 2012

Find the two leading terms in the asymptotic expansion of the Laplace integral

I(x)=01f(t)ext4dtI(x)=\int_{0}^{1} f(t) e^{x t^{4}} d t

as xx \rightarrow \infty, where f(t)f(t) is smooth and positive on [0,1][0,1].