Internal problem ID [11071]
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: 247.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]
\[ \boxed {x^{n} y^{\prime \prime }+\left (a \,x^{n}-x^{n -1}+a b x +b \right ) y^{\prime }+a^{2} b x y=0} \]
✗ Solution by Maple
dsolve(x^n*diff(y(x),x$2)+(a*x^n-x^(n-1)+a*b*x+b)*diff(y(x),x)+a^2*b*x*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-x^(n-1)+a*b*x+b)*y'[x]+a^2*b*x*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
Not solved