Internal problem ID [8688]
Book: Differential Gleichungen, E. Kamke, 3rd ed. Chelsea Pub. NY, 1948
Section: Chapter 2, linear second order
Problem number: 1108.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]
Solve \begin {gather*} \boxed {y^{\prime \prime } x +\left (x +a +b \right ) y^{\prime }+a y=0} \end {gather*}
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.015 (sec). Leaf size: 29
dsolve(x*diff(diff(y(x),x),x)+(x+a+b)*diff(y(x),x)+a*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
\[ y \relax (x ) = c_{1} {\mathrm e}^{-x} \KummerM \left (b , a +b , x\right )+c_{2} {\mathrm e}^{-x} \KummerU \left (b , a +b , x\right ) \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.016 (sec). Leaf size: 33
DSolve[a*y[x] + (a + b + x)*y'[x] + x*y''[x] == 0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
\begin{align*} y(x)\to e^{-x} (c_1 \text {HypergeometricU}(b,a+b,x)+c_2 L_{-b}^{a+b-1}(x)) \\ \end{align*}