Internal problem ID [9348]
Book: Differential Gleichungen, E. Kamke, 3rd ed. Chelsea Pub. NY, 1948
Section: Chapter 2, linear second order
Problem number: 1014.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [[_Emden, _Fowler]]
\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }-c \,x^{a} y=0} \]
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.344 (sec). Leaf size: 63
dsolve(diff(diff(y(x),x),x)-c*x^a*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
\[ y \left (x \right ) = \sqrt {x}\, \left (\operatorname {BesselY}\left (\frac {1}{a +2}, \frac {2 \sqrt {-c}\, x^{\frac {a}{2}+1}}{a +2}\right ) c_{2} +\operatorname {BesselJ}\left (\frac {1}{a +2}, \frac {2 \sqrt {-c}\, x^{\frac {a}{2}+1}}{a +2}\right ) c_{1} \right ) \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.072 (sec). Leaf size: 119
DSolve[-(c*x^a*y[x]) + y''[x] == 0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
\[ y(x)\to (a+2)^{-\frac {1}{a+2}} \sqrt {x} c^{\frac {1}{2 a+4}} \left (c_1 \operatorname {Gamma}\left (\frac {a+1}{a+2}\right ) \operatorname {BesselI}\left (-\frac {1}{a+2},\frac {2 \sqrt {c} x^{\frac {a}{2}+1}}{a+2}\right )+(-1)^{\frac {1}{a+2}} c_2 \operatorname {Gamma}\left (1+\frac {1}{a+2}\right ) \operatorname {BesselI}\left (\frac {1}{a+2},\frac {2 \sqrt {c} x^{\frac {a}{2}+1}}{a+2}\right )\right ) \]