Conjecture on singularities from three formal solutions of a third-order ODE

Let a,b,c,da,b,c,d be analytic functions at x0otinRx_0 otin\mathbb R, and consider the linear homogeneous ordinary differential equation

a(x)y+b(x)y+c(x)y+d(x)y=0.a(x)y^{\prime\prime\prime}+b(x)y^{\prime\prime}+c(x)y^\prime+d(x)y=0.

Suppose that this equation admits three linearly independent formal solutions y1(x),y2(x),y3(x)y_1(x),y_2(x),y_3(x). Three-solution singularity conjecture. Then x0x_0 is an ordinary point or a regular singular point for the ODE, and the solutions are analytic and convergent. The claim would characterize ordinary and regular singular points through the existence of a full set of formal solutions; its status is not established by the supplied text.

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V. León and B. Scárdua, “On singular Frobenius for linear differential equations of second and third order, part 1: ordinary differential equations”, arXiv:1906.04277 (2019).

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