Higher-order asymptotic expansion for abstract linear second-order differential equations with time-dependent coefficients.

This paper is concerned with the asymptotic expansion of solutions to the initial-value problem of u ″ (t) + A u (t) + b (t) u ′ (t) = 0 in a Hilbert space with a nonnegative selfadjoint operator A and a coefficient b (t) ∼ (1 + t) − β (− 1 < β < 1). In the case b (t) ≡ 1 , it is known that the higher-order asymptotic profiles are determined via a family of first-order differential equations of the form v ′ (t) + A v (t) = F n (t) (Sobajima (2021) [10]). For the time-dependent case, it is only known that the asymptotic behavior of such a solution is given by the one of b (t) v ′ (t) + A v (t) = 0. The result of this paper is to find the equations for all higher-order asymptotic profiles. It is worth noticing that the equation for n -th order profile u ˜ n is given via v ′ (t) + m n (t) A v (t) = F n (t) which coefficient m n (time-scale) differs each other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]