Frobenius method
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In mathematics, the method of Frobenius, named after Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, is a way to find an infinite series solution for a linear second-order ordinary differential equation of the form
with and .
in the vicinity of the regular singular point .
One can divide by to obtain a differential equation of the form
which will not be solvable with regular power series methods if either p(z)/z or q(z)/z2 is not analytic at z = 0. The Frobenius method enables one to create a power series solution to such a differential equation, provided that p(z) and q(z) are themselves analytic at 0 or, being analytic elsewhere, both their limits at 0 exist (and are finite).