1.391 problem 400

Internal problem ID [7125]

Book: Collection of Kovacic problems
Section: section 1
Problem number: 400.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]

Solve \begin {gather*} \boxed {x^{3} y^{\prime \prime }+y^{\prime }-\frac {y}{x}=0} \end {gather*}

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.016 (sec). Leaf size: 21

dsolve(x^3*diff(y(x),x$2)+ diff(y(x),x)-1/x*y(x) = 0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \relax (x ) = c_{1} x +c_{2} x \erf \left (\frac {i \sqrt {2}}{2 x}\right ) \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.051 (sec). Leaf size: 34

DSolve[x^3*y''[x]+ y'[x]-1/x*y[x] == 0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)\to c_1 x-\sqrt {\frac {\pi }{2}} c_2 x \text {Erfi}\left (\frac {1}{\sqrt {2} x}\right ) \\ \end{align*}