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In Theorem
2.5,
the integer
v
is the
LCM
of the slopes of the Newton
polygon
N(A)
(which belongs to
Q+
).
The ramification
x
=
t’
to
(A)
is
a system
(A,)
in
t;
the slopes of
(A,)
are the slopes of
(A)
multiplied by
v
;
they are integers (the degree in
t
of the polynomials
qi
).
It
is very important to notice that in general the entries of the matrix
H(t)
are divergent series (like in the Airy example
. . .
)
In a sector
V,
we can represent the “symbol”
xL
by an actual holomor-
phic function: we write
xL
and we choose a determination of
the logarithm over
V.
In the linear case we have the following fundamental existence theorem
(Birkhoff fundamental existence theqrem) in PoincarB’s style.
Theorem
2.6.
(Birkhoff) Let
(A)
Y’=A(x)Y
be a (germ
of)
meromorphic system. For each direction d, there exists a
sector
V
bisected by d and a holomorphic matrix H
in
V,
asymptotic
in
V
to H (in Poincare’s sense) such that F
=
HxLeQ
is
a fundamental actual
solution
of
(A).
We suppose that when we write the expression of
F,
we have chosen a
branch
of
Logx on
V
and therefore
a
determination of
xL
and
a
determi-
The reader can find a proof of Theorem
2.6
in W. Wasow’s book
[33].
The proof is quite delicate.
It
is possible to improve this result: if
ke
is the
smallest strictly positive slope of
N(A),
then we can choose for
V
a
sector
of opening
2.
Moreover, for some choices of
d
it can be possible to choose
a bigger sector
[29].
We will give some indications below.
Let
q
E
$[+I
:
q(t)
=
pt-’++.
(p
E
C,
k
E
N*).
The “dominant part”
of
eq(t)
is
exp(pt-’).
The directions (in the t-plane) such that
pt-’
E
iR
are oscillation lines for
exp(pt-’).
They are (in the classical terminology)
Stokes lines. Sometimes they are called anti-Stokes lines (which is more in
the spirit of Stokes’ work.
. .
).
We suppose that the Newton polygon
N(A)
of
our
system admits only
one strictly positive slope
k
>
0.
Then
qi
=
pzt-‘
(i
=
1,.
.
. ,
rn).
The
pi’s
are solutions of an algebraic equation (the indicia1 equation associated to
the slope
k).
The simplest case is when the
rn
values of
pi
are all distinct.
In this case, we can consider the system
nation of
t
=
xt
=
e(t)Logz.
(End
A)
X’
=
AX
-
XA
=
[A,
X]