61.27.40 problem 50

Internal problem ID [12550]
Book : Handbook of exact solutions for ordinary differential equations. By Polyanin and Zaitsev. Second edition
Section : Chapter 2, Second-Order Differential Equations. section 2.1.2-2
Problem number : 50
Date solved : Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at 03:21:20 AM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]

\begin{align*} y^{\prime \prime }+\left (a \,x^{n}+b \right ) y^{\prime }+c \left (a \,x^{n}+b -c \right ) y&=0 \end{align*}

✗ Solution by Maple

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

\[ \text {No solution found} \]

✗ Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.000 (sec). Leaf size: 0

DSolve[D[y[x],{x,2}]+(a*x^n+b)*D[y[x],x]+c*(a*x^n+b-c)*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

Not solved