33.8 problem 246

Internal problem ID [11070]

Book: Handbook of exact solutions for ordinary differential equations. By Polyanin and Zaitsev. Second edition
Section: Chapter 2, Second-Order Differential Equations. section 2.1.2-8. Other equations.
Problem number: 246.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]

\[ \boxed {x^{n} y^{\prime \prime }+\left (a \,x^{n}+b \right ) y^{\prime }+c \left (\left (a -c \right ) x^{n}+b \right ) y=0} \]

Solution by Maple

dsolve(x^n*diff(y(x),x$2)+(a*x^n+b)*diff(y(x),x)+c*((a-c)*x^n+b)*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ \text {No solution found} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 0

DSolve[x^n*y''[x]+(a*x^n+b)*y'[x]+c*((a-c)*x^n+b)*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

Not solved