1.654 problem 669

Internal problem ID [8144]

Book: Collection of Kovacic problems
Section: section 1
Problem number: 669.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }+y^{\prime } x -4 y=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.031 (sec). Leaf size: 57

dsolve(diff(y(x),x$2)+x*diff(y(x),x)-4*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = c_{1} \left (\sqrt {2}\, {\mathrm e}^{-\frac {x^{2}}{2}} \left (x^{2}+5\right ) x +\operatorname {erf}\left (\frac {\sqrt {2}\, x}{2}\right ) \sqrt {\pi }\, \left (x^{4}+6 x^{2}+3\right )\right )+c_{2} \left (x^{4}+6 x^{2}+3\right ) \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.02 (sec). Leaf size: 43

DSolve[y''[x]+x*y'[x]-4*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_1 e^{-\frac {x^2}{2}} \operatorname {HermiteH}\left (-5,\frac {x}{\sqrt {2}}\right )+\frac {1}{3} c_2 \left (x^4+6 x^2+3\right ) \]