Internal problem ID [10875]
Book: Handbook of exact solutions for ordinary differential equations. By Polyanin and Zaitsev.
Second edition
Section: Chapter 2, Second-Order Differential Equations. section 2.1.2-2 Equation of form
\(y''+f(x)y'+g(x)y=0\)
Problem number: 51.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]
\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }+\left (a \,x^{n}+2 b \right ) y^{\prime }+\left (a b \,x^{n}-a \,x^{n -1}+b^{2}\right ) y=0} \]
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.203 (sec). Leaf size: 167
dsolve(diff(y(x),x$2)+(a*x^n+2*b)*diff(y(x),x)+(a*b*x^n-a*x^(n-1)+b^2)*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
\[ y \left (x \right ) = {\mathrm e}^{-\frac {\left (a \,x^{n}+2 \left (n +1\right ) b \right ) x}{2 n +2}} c_{2} \left (n +1\right ) \left (a \,x^{-\frac {n}{2}}+x^{-\frac {3 n}{2}-1} n \right ) \operatorname {WhittakerM}\left (\frac {-n -2}{2 n +2}, \frac {2 n +1}{2 n +2}, \frac {a \,x^{n +1}}{n +1}\right )+c_{2} n^{2} x^{-\frac {3 n}{2}-1} {\mathrm e}^{-\frac {\left (a \,x^{n}+2 \left (n +1\right ) b \right ) x}{2 n +2}} \operatorname {WhittakerM}\left (\frac {n}{2 n +2}, \frac {2 n +1}{2 n +2}, \frac {a \,x^{n +1}}{n +1}\right )+c_{1} {\mathrm e}^{-b x} x \]
✗ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 0
DSolve[y''[x]+(a*x^n+2*b)*y'[x]+(a*b*x^n-a*x^(n-1)+b^2)*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
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