20.11.4 problem Problem 4

Internal problem ID [3786]
Book : Differential equations and linear algebra, Stephen W. Goode and Scott A Annin. Fourth edition, 2015
Section : Chapter 8, Linear differential equations of order n. Section 8.9, Reduction of Order. page 572
Problem number : Problem 4
Date solved : Monday, January 27, 2025 at 08:02:17 AM
CAS classification : [_Gegenbauer]

\begin{align*} \left (-x^{2}+1\right ) y^{\prime \prime }-2 x y^{\prime }+2 y&=0 \end{align*}

Using reduction of order method given that one solution is

\begin{align*} y&=x \end{align*}

✓ Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.007 (sec). Leaf size: 25

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

\[ y \left (x \right ) = \frac {c_{2} \ln \left (x -1\right ) x}{2}-\frac {c_{2} \ln \left (x +1\right ) x}{2}+c_{1} x +c_{2} \]

✓ Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.020 (sec). Leaf size: 33

DSolve[(1-x^2)*D[y[x],{x,2}]-2*x*D[y[x],x]+2*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_1 x-\frac {1}{2} c_2 (x \log (1-x)-x \log (x+1)+2) \]