Internal problem ID [8648]
Book: Differential Gleichungen, E. Kamke, 3rd ed. Chelsea Pub. NY, 1948
Section: Chapter 2, linear second order
Problem number: 1068.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]
Solve \begin {gather*} \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }+\cot \relax (x ) y^{\prime }+v \left (v +1\right ) y=0} \end {gather*}
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.078 (sec). Leaf size: 45
dsolve(diff(diff(y(x),x),x)+diff(y(x),x)*cot(x)+v*(v+1)*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
\[ y \relax (x ) = c_{1} \hypergeom \left (\left [-\frac {v}{2}, \frac {1}{2}+\frac {v}{2}\right ], \left [\frac {1}{2}\right ], \cos ^{2}\relax (x )\right )+c_{2} \cos \relax (x ) \hypergeom \left (\left [1+\frac {v}{2}, \frac {1}{2}-\frac {v}{2}\right ], \left [\frac {3}{2}\right ], \cos ^{2}\relax (x )\right ) \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.08 (sec). Leaf size: 20
DSolve[v*(1 + v)*y[x] + Cot[x]*y'[x] + y''[x] == 0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
\begin{align*} y(x)\to c_1 P_v(\cos (x))+c_2 Q_v(\cos (x)) \\ \end{align*}