29.3 problem 112

Internal problem ID [10946]

Book: Handbook of exact solutions for ordinary differential equations. By Polyanin and Zaitsev. Second edition
Section: Chapter 2, Second-Order Differential Equations. section 2.1.2-4 Equation of form \(x^2 y''+f(x)y'+g(x)y=0\)
Problem number: 112.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

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

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 29

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

\[ y \left (x \right ) = c_{1} \sqrt {x}\, \operatorname {BesselJ}\left (n +\frac {1}{2}, a x \right )+c_{2} \sqrt {x}\, \operatorname {BesselY}\left (n +\frac {1}{2}, a x \right ) \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.056 (sec). Leaf size: 36

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

\[ y(x)\to \sqrt {x} \left (c_1 \operatorname {BesselJ}\left (n+\frac {1}{2},a x\right )+c_2 \operatorname {BesselY}\left (n+\frac {1}{2},a x\right )\right ) \]