Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, Conf. 10 (2002), pp. 227-240. Title: Asymptotic analysis of the Carrier-Pearson problem Author: Chunqing Lu (Southern Illinois Univ. at Edwardsville, IL, USA) Abstract: This paper provides a rigorous analysis of the asymptotic behavior of the solution for the boundary-value problem \begin{gather*} \epsilon ^2u''+u^2-1 =0,\quad -1