Paper 1, Section II, B
Part II, 2013
Suppose . Define what it means to say that
is an asymptotic expansion of as . Show that has no other asymptotic expansion in inverse powers of as .
To estimate the value of for large , one may use an optimal truncation of the asymptotic expansion. Explain what is meant by this, and show that the error is an exponentially small quantity in .
Derive an integral respresentation for a function with the above asymptotic expansion.