Paper 3, Section I, B

Further Complex Methods
Part II, 2014

State the conditions for a point z=z0z=z_{0} to be a regular singular point of a linear second-order homogeneous ordinary differential equation in the complex plane.

Find all singular points of the Airy equation

w(z)zw(z)=0w^{\prime \prime}(z)-z w(z)=0

and determine whether they are regular or irregular.