Internal problem ID [2908]
Book: Differential equations and linear algebra, Stephen W. Goode and Scott A Annin. Fourth
edition, 2015
Section: Chapter 11, Series Solutions to Linear Differential Equations. Exercises for 11.2. page
739
Problem number: Problem 12.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [_Gegenbauer]
\[ \boxed {\left (x^{2}-1\right ) y^{\prime \prime }-6 x y^{\prime }+12 y=0} \] With the expansion point for the power series method at \(x = 0\).
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 25
Order:=6; dsolve((x^2-1)*diff(y(x),x$2)-6*x*diff(y(x),x)+12*y(x)=0,y(x),type='series',x=0);
\[ y \left (x \right ) = \left (x^{4}+6 x^{2}+1\right ) y \left (0\right )+\left (x^{3}+x \right ) D\left (y \right )\left (0\right )+O\left (x^{6}\right ) \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 25
AsymptoticDSolveValue[(x^2-1)*y''[x]-6*x*y'[x]+12*y[x]==0,y[x],{x,0,5}]
\[ y(x)\to c_2 \left (x^3+x\right )+c_1 \left (x^4+6 x^2+1\right ) \]