Internal problem ID [8952]
Book: Differential Gleichungen, E. Kamke, 3rd ed. Chelsea Pub. NY, 1948
Section: Chapter 2, linear second order
Problem number: 1373.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]
Solve \begin {gather*} \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }+\frac {2 x y^{\prime }}{x^{2}-1}+\frac {\left (-a^{2} \left (x^{2}-1\right )^{2}-n \left (n +1\right ) \left (x^{2}-1\right )-m^{2}\right ) y}{\left (x^{2}-1\right )^{2}}=0} \end {gather*}
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.078 (sec). Leaf size: 92
dsolve(diff(diff(y(x),x),x) = -2*x/(x^2-1)*diff(y(x),x)-(-a^2*(x^2-1)^2-n*(n+1)*(x^2-1)-m^2)/(x^2-1)^2*y(x),y(x), singsol=all)
\[ y \relax (x ) = c_{1} \left (x^{2}-1\right )^{\frac {m}{2}} \HeunC \left (0, -\frac {1}{2}, m , -\frac {a^{2}}{4}, \frac {1}{4}+\frac {1}{4} a^{2}+\frac {1}{4} m^{2}-\frac {1}{4} n^{2}-\frac {1}{4} n , x^{2}\right )+c_{2} \left (x^{2}-1\right )^{\frac {m}{2}} x \HeunC \left (0, \frac {1}{2}, m , -\frac {a^{2}}{4}, \frac {1}{4}+\frac {1}{4} a^{2}+\frac {1}{4} m^{2}-\frac {1}{4} n^{2}-\frac {1}{4} n , x^{2}\right ) \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.149 (sec). Leaf size: 103
DSolve[y''[x] == -(((-m^2 - n*(1 + n)*(-1 + x^2) - a^2*(-1 + x^2)^2)*y[x])/(-1 + x^2)^2) - (2*x*y'[x])/(-1 + x^2),y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
\begin{align*} y(x)\to \left (x^2-1\right )^{m/2} \left (c_1 \text {HeunC}\left [\frac {1}{4} \left (-a^2-m (m+1)+n^2+n\right ),-\frac {a^2}{4},\frac {1}{2},m+1,0,x^2\right ]+c_2 x \text {HeunC}\left [\frac {1}{4} \left (-a^2-(m-n+1) (m+n+2)\right ),-\frac {a^2}{4},\frac {3}{2},m+1,0,x^2\right ]\right ) \\ \end{align*}