Advanced Search

We study extension of $p$-trigonometric functions ${sin}_p$ and ${cos}_p$ to complex domain. For $p=4,6,8,\cdots$, the function ${sin}_p$ satisfies the initial value problem which is equivalent to (*) $$-{\left(u^{\text{'}}\right)}^{p-2}{u}^{\text{'}\text{'}}-u^{p-1}=0,u\left(0\right)=0,u^{\text{'}}\left(0\right)=1$$ in $ℝ$. In our recent paper, Girg, Kotrla (2014), we showed that ${sin}_p\left(x\right)$ is a real analytic function for $p=4,6,8,\cdots$ on $(-{\pi }_p/2,{\pi }_p/2)$, where ${\pi }_p/2={\int }_0^1{(1-s^p)}^{-1/p}$. This allows us to extend ${sin}_p$ to complex domain by its Maclaurin series convergent on the disc $\{z\in ℂ:|z|<{\pi }_p/2\}$. The question is whether this extensions ${sin}_p\left(z\right)$ satisfies (*) in the sense of differential equations in complex domain. This interesting...