1.76 problem 78

Internal problem ID [7566]

Book: Collection of Kovacic problems
Section: section 1
Problem number: 78.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }+3 x y^{\prime }+\left (2 x^{2}+4\right ) y=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 50

dsolve(diff(y(x),x$2)+3*x*diff(y(x),x)+(4+2*x^2)*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = c_{1} {\mathrm e}^{-x^{2}} \left (x^{2}-1\right )+c_{2} {\mathrm e}^{-x^{2}} \left (x^{2}-1\right ) \left (\int \frac {{\mathrm e}^{\frac {x^{2}}{2}}}{\left (x -1\right )^{2} \left (x +1\right )^{2}}d x \right ) \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.427 (sec). Leaf size: 63

DSolve[y''[x]+3*x*y'[x]+(4+2*x^2)*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
                                                                                    
                                                                                    
 

\[ y(x)\to \frac {1}{4} e^{-x^2} \left (\sqrt {2 \pi } c_2 \left (x^2-1\right ) \text {erfi}\left (\frac {x}{\sqrt {2}}\right )+4 c_1 \left (x^2-1\right )-2 c_2 e^{\frac {x^2}{2}} x\right ) \]