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Examples of ODEs with complex constant coefficients and applications to physics?

This question is asked on stackexchange: Are there examples for ODEs with complex coefficients with applications in physics? but received no answers. I am reposting it here on the hope that it catches ...
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Harmonic function in infinite domain in $\mathbb{R}^3$, constant on the boundary and decaying as $1/r^2$

EDIT: Let $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^3$ be a bounded domain with smooth connected boundary. Let $f\colon \mathbb{R}^3\backslash \Omega \to \mathbb{R}$ be a continuous function which is harmonic in $\...
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Why the least action principle is always (?) used in this particular form?

The least action principle in (mathematical) physics says the following. Given a system, e.g. collection of particles, whose motion satisfies a known system of differential equations (of second order)...
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wave speed and travelling wave

I have seen a lot of work has been done in the context of travelling wave. For example the work of McKenna and Chen in Journal of Differential Equations Volume 136, Issue 2, 20 May 1997, Pages 325-355....
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Diffusion equation on mixing of diffusing particles

I am trying to study mixing of diffusing particles like it was done by E. Ben-Naim On the Mixing of Diffusing Particles. The picture below shows the idea how permutations and inversion numbers reflect ...
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What is the geometric meaning of the third derivative of a function at a point? [closed]

What is the geometric meaning of the third derivative of a function at a point? This question is now asked on the sister site: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/14841/what-is-the-meaning-of-...
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