1.58 problem 60

Internal problem ID [6791]

Book: Collection of Kovacic problems
Section: section 1
Problem number: 60.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {\left (2 x^{2}+1\right ) y^{\prime \prime }-9 y^{\prime } x -6 y=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.016 (sec). Leaf size: 47

dsolve((1+2*x^2)*diff(y(x),x$2)-9*x*diff(y(x),x)-6*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = c_{1} \left (2 x^{2}+1\right )^{\frac {13}{8}} \operatorname {LegendreP}\left (\frac {11}{4}, \frac {13}{4}, i \sqrt {2}\, x \right )+c_{2} \left (2 x^{2}+1\right )^{\frac {13}{8}} \operatorname {LegendreQ}\left (\frac {11}{4}, \frac {13}{4}, i \sqrt {2}\, x \right ) \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.008 (sec). Leaf size: 69

DSolve[(1+2*x^2)*y''[x]-9*x*y'[x]-6*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)\to c_2 \left (2 x^2+1\right )^{13/8} Q_{\frac {11}{4}}^{\frac {13}{4}}\left (i \sqrt {2} x\right )-\frac {48 \sqrt [4]{2} c_1 \left (3 x^6+5 x^4+3 x^2+1\right )}{\operatorname {Gamma}\left (-\frac {5}{4}\right )} \\ \end{align*}