64.14.4 problem 4

Internal problem ID [13563]
Book : Differential Equations by Shepley L. Ross. Third edition. John Willey. New Delhi. 2004.
Section : Chapter 6, Series solutions of linear differential equations. Section 6.1. Exercises page 232
Problem number : 4
Date solved : Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at 05:53:02 AM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]

\begin{align*} y^{\prime \prime }+x y^{\prime }+\left (x^{2}-4\right ) y&=0 \end{align*}

Using series method with expansion around

\begin{align*} 0 \end{align*}

✓ Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 39

Order:=6; 
dsolve(diff(y(x),x$2)+x*diff(y(x),x)+(x^2-4)*y(x)=0,y(x),type='series',x=0);
 

\[ y = \left (1+2 x^{2}+\frac {1}{4} x^{4}\right ) y \left (0\right )+\left (x +\frac {1}{2} x^{3}-\frac {1}{40} x^{5}\right ) y^{\prime }\left (0\right )+O\left (x^{6}\right ) \]

✓ Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 40

AsymptoticDSolveValue[D[y[x],{x,2}]+x*D[y[x],x]+(x^2-4)*y[x]==0,y[x],{x,0,"6"-1}]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_2 \left (-\frac {x^5}{40}+\frac {x^3}{2}+x\right )+c_1 \left (\frac {x^4}{4}+2 x^2+1\right ) \]