Internal problem ID [6947]
Book: Elementary differential equations. Rainville, Bedient, Bedient. Prentice Hall. NJ. 8th
edition. 1997.
Section: CHAPTER 18. Power series solutions. 18.4 Indicial Equation with Difference of Roots
Nonintegral. Exercises page 365
Problem number: 34.
ODE order: 3.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [[_3rd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]
\[ \boxed {x^{3} y^{\prime \prime \prime }+4 x^{2} y^{\prime \prime }-8 x y^{\prime }+8 y=0} \]
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.016 (sec). Leaf size: 20
dsolve(x^3*diff(y(x),x$3)+4*x^2*diff(y(x),x$2)-8*x*diff(y(x),x)+8*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
\[ y \left (x \right ) = \frac {c_{1} x^{6}+c_{3} x^{5}+c_{2}}{x^{4}} \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.004 (sec). Leaf size: 22
DSolve[x^3*y'''[x]+4*x^2*y''[x]-8*x*y'[x]+8*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
\[ y(x)\to \frac {c_1}{x^4}+c_3 x^2+c_2 x \]