Internal problem ID [10591]
Book: Handbook of exact solutions for ordinary differential equations. By Polyanin and Zaitsev.
Second edition
Section: Chapter 1, section 1.2. Riccati Equation. subsection 1.2.7-3. Equations containing
arctangent.
Problem number: 34.
ODE order: 1.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [[_1st_order, `_with_symmetry_[F(x),G(x)]`], _Riccati]
\[ \boxed {y^{\prime }-\lambda \operatorname {arccot}\left (x \right )^{n} \left (y-a \,x^{m}-b \right )^{2}=a m \,x^{m -1}} \]
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 24
dsolve(diff(y(x),x)=lambda*arccot(x)^n*(y(x)-a*x^m-b)^2+a*m*x^(m-1),y(x), singsol=all)
\[ y \left (x \right ) = a \,x^{m}+b +\frac {1}{c_{1} -\lambda \left (\int \operatorname {arccot}\left (x \right )^{n}d x \right )} \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 2.259 (sec). Leaf size: 44
DSolve[y'[x]==\[Lambda]*ArcCot[x]^n*(y[x]-a*x^m-b)^2+a*m*x^(m-1),y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
\begin{align*} y(x)\to \frac {1}{-\int _1^x\lambda \cot ^{-1}(K[2])^ndK[2]+c_1}+a x^m+b \\ y(x)\to a x^m+b \\ \end{align*}