2.6 problem 6

Internal problem ID [9593]

Book: Handbook of exact solutions for ordinary differential equations. By Polyanin and Zaitsev. Second edition
Section: Chapter 1, section 1.2. Riccati Equation. 1.2.2. Equations Containing Power Functions
Problem number: 6.
ODE order: 1.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [_Riccati]

Solve \begin {gather*} \boxed {y^{\prime }-a y^{2}-b \,x^{2 n}-c \,x^{n -1}=0} \end {gather*}

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 499

dsolve(diff(y(x),x)=a*y(x)^2+b*x^(2*n)+c*x^(n-1),y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \relax (x ) = -\frac {\left (-2 b^{\frac {3}{2}} c_{1} n -2 b^{\frac {3}{2}} c_{1}\right ) \WhittakerW \left (\frac {-i \sqrt {a}\, c +2 \sqrt {b}\, n +2 \sqrt {b}}{2 \sqrt {b}\, \left (n +1\right )}, \frac {1}{2 n +2}, \frac {2 i \sqrt {b}\, \sqrt {a}\, x^{n +1}}{n +1}\right )}{2 b^{\frac {3}{2}} \left (\WhittakerW \left (-\frac {i \sqrt {a}\, c}{2 \sqrt {b}\, \left (n +1\right )}, \frac {1}{2 n +2}, \frac {2 i \sqrt {b}\, \sqrt {a}\, x^{n +1}}{n +1}\right ) c_{1}+\WhittakerM \left (-\frac {i \sqrt {a}\, c}{2 \sqrt {b}\, \left (n +1\right )}, \frac {1}{2 n +2}, \frac {2 i \sqrt {b}\, \sqrt {a}\, x^{n +1}}{n +1}\right )\right ) a x}-\frac {\left (2 i x^{n +1} \sqrt {a}\, c_{1} b^{2}-b^{\frac {3}{2}} c_{1} n +i \sqrt {a}\, c_{1} b c \right ) \WhittakerW \left (-\frac {i \sqrt {a}\, c}{2 \sqrt {b}\, \left (n +1\right )}, \frac {1}{2 n +2}, \frac {2 i \sqrt {b}\, \sqrt {a}\, x^{n +1}}{n +1}\right )+\left (b^{\frac {3}{2}} n -i \sqrt {a}\, b c +2 b^{\frac {3}{2}}\right ) \WhittakerM \left (\frac {-i \sqrt {a}\, c +2 \sqrt {b}\, n +2 \sqrt {b}}{2 \sqrt {b}\, \left (n +1\right )}, \frac {1}{2 n +2}, \frac {2 i \sqrt {b}\, \sqrt {a}\, x^{n +1}}{n +1}\right )+\left (2 i x^{n +1} \sqrt {a}\, b^{2}-b^{\frac {3}{2}} n +i \sqrt {a}\, b c \right ) \WhittakerM \left (-\frac {i \sqrt {a}\, c}{2 \sqrt {b}\, \left (n +1\right )}, \frac {1}{2 n +2}, \frac {2 i \sqrt {b}\, \sqrt {a}\, x^{n +1}}{n +1}\right )}{2 b^{\frac {3}{2}} \left (\WhittakerW \left (-\frac {i \sqrt {a}\, c}{2 \sqrt {b}\, \left (n +1\right )}, \frac {1}{2 n +2}, \frac {2 i \sqrt {b}\, \sqrt {a}\, x^{n +1}}{n +1}\right ) c_{1}+\WhittakerM \left (-\frac {i \sqrt {a}\, c}{2 \sqrt {b}\, \left (n +1\right )}, \frac {1}{2 n +2}, \frac {2 i \sqrt {b}\, \sqrt {a}\, x^{n +1}}{n +1}\right )\right ) a x} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.916 (sec). Leaf size: 764

DSolve[y'[x]==a*y[x]^2+b*x^(2*n)+c*x^(n-1),y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)\to -\frac {x^n \left (\sqrt {b} c_1 (n+1) \sqrt {-(n+1)^2} \text {HypergeometricU}\left (\frac {1}{2} \left (\frac {\sqrt {a} c}{\sqrt {b} \sqrt {-(n+1)^2}}+\frac {n}{n+1}\right ),\frac {n}{n+1},\frac {2 \sqrt {a} \sqrt {b} x^{n+1}}{\sqrt {-(n+1)^2}}\right )+c_1 \left (\sqrt {a} c (n+1)+\sqrt {b} \sqrt {-(n+1)^2} n\right ) \text {HypergeometricU}\left (\frac {1}{2} \left (\frac {\sqrt {a} c}{\sqrt {b} \sqrt {-(n+1)^2}}+\frac {3 n+2}{n+1}\right ),\frac {n}{n+1}+1,\frac {2 \sqrt {a} \sqrt {b} x^{n+1}}{\sqrt {-(n+1)^2}}\right )+\sqrt {b} (n+1) \sqrt {-(n+1)^2} \left (L_{-\frac {\sqrt {a} c}{2 \sqrt {b} \sqrt {-(n+1)^2}}-\frac {n}{2 (n+1)}}^{-\frac {1}{n+1}}\left (\frac {2 \sqrt {a} \sqrt {b} x^{n+1}}{\sqrt {-(n+1)^2}}\right )+2 L_{-\frac {\sqrt {a} c}{2 \sqrt {b} \sqrt {-(n+1)^2}}-\frac {3 n+2}{2 n+2}}^{\frac {n}{n+1}}\left (\frac {2 \sqrt {a} \sqrt {b} x^{n+1}}{\sqrt {-(n+1)^2}}\right )\right )\right )}{\sqrt {a} (n+1)^2 \left (L_{-\frac {\sqrt {a} c}{2 \sqrt {b} \sqrt {-(n+1)^2}}-\frac {n}{2 (n+1)}}^{-\frac {1}{n+1}}\left (\frac {2 \sqrt {a} \sqrt {b} x^{n+1}}{\sqrt {-(n+1)^2}}\right )+c_1 \text {HypergeometricU}\left (\frac {1}{2} \left (\frac {\sqrt {a} c}{\sqrt {b} \sqrt {-(n+1)^2}}+\frac {n}{n+1}\right ),\frac {n}{n+1},\frac {2 \sqrt {a} \sqrt {b} x^{n+1}}{\sqrt {-(n+1)^2}}\right )\right )} \\ y(x)\to \frac {x^n \left (-\frac {\left (\sqrt {a} c (n+1)+\sqrt {b} \sqrt {-(n+1)^2} n\right ) \text {HypergeometricU}\left (\frac {1}{2} \left (\frac {\sqrt {a} c}{\sqrt {b} \sqrt {-(n+1)^2}}+\frac {n}{n+1}+2\right ),\frac {n}{n+1}+1,\frac {2 \sqrt {a} \sqrt {b} x^{n+1}}{\sqrt {-(n+1)^2}}\right )}{\text {HypergeometricU}\left (\frac {1}{2} \left (\frac {\sqrt {a} c}{\sqrt {b} \sqrt {-(n+1)^2}}+\frac {n}{n+1}\right ),\frac {n}{n+1},\frac {2 \sqrt {a} \sqrt {b} x^{n+1}}{\sqrt {-(n+1)^2}}\right )}-\sqrt {b} \sqrt {-(n+1)^2} (n+1)\right )}{\sqrt {a} (n+1)^2} \\ \end{align*}