Paper 1, Section II, 14B
Part II, 2014
Obtain solutions of the second-order ordinary differential equation
in the form
where the function and the choice of contour should be determined from the differential equation.
Show that a non-trivial solution can be obtained by choosing to be a suitable closed contour, and find the resulting solution in this case, expressing your answer in the form of a power series.
Describe a contour that would provide a second linearly independent solution for the case .