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The equality of the moduli of certain ratios occurring in the connexion formulae of solutions of some transcendental differential equations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
Abstract
The differential equations governing the propagation of waves of electric and magnetic types in a plane stratified isotropic plasma are suitably generalized, and we investigate the possibility of models for which the moduli of the reflexion coefficients are identical for the two modes. First, the models are examined without the necessity of finding general solutions, and, secondly, by using the circuit relations for the hypergeometric functions occurring in the explicit solutions.
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- Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 67 , Issue 2 , March 1970 , pp. 347 - 361
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