2.4 problem 4

Internal problem ID [8320]

Book: Collection of Kovacic problems
Section: section 2. Solution found using all possible Kovacic cases
Problem number: 4.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_Emden, _Fowler]]

\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }-\frac {y}{4 x^{2}}=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.016 (sec). Leaf size: 29

dsolve(diff(y(x),x$2)-1/(4*x^2)*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

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

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.017 (sec). Leaf size: 32

DSolve[y''[x]-1/(4*x^2)*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
                                                                                    
                                                                                    
 

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