Abstract
If in an asymptotic method the sense of the word “symmetry” is some form of “commensurabihty”, then the construction of an asymptotics often becomes a search for sharp, clearly marked noncommensurabilities (large-small, long-short, slow-fast, and so on)1
There are as many problems,
as there are perturbation methods.
—Physicist’ folklore
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Andrianov, I.V., Manevitch, L.I., Hazewinkel, M. (2002). What Are Asymptotic Methods?. In: Asymptotology. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 551. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9162-1_2
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