34.11 problem 11

Internal problem ID [11099]

Book: Handbook of exact solutions for ordinary differential equations. By Polyanin and Zaitsev. Second edition
Section: Chapter 2, Second-Order Differential Equations. section 2.1.3-1. Equations with exponential functions
Problem number: 11.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }-y^{\prime }+\left ({\mathrm e}^{3 \lambda x} a +b \,{\mathrm e}^{2 \lambda x}+\frac {1}{4}-\frac {\lambda ^{2}}{4}\right ) y=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.234 (sec). Leaf size: 51

dsolve(diff(y(x),x$2)-diff(y(x),x)+(a*exp(3*lambda*x)+b*exp(2*lambda*x)+1/4-1/4*lambda^2  )*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = {\mathrm e}^{-\frac {x \left (\lambda -1\right )}{2}} \left (\operatorname {AiryAi}\left (-\frac {{\mathrm e}^{x \lambda } a +b}{\lambda ^{\frac {2}{3}} a^{\frac {2}{3}}}\right ) c_{1} +\operatorname {AiryBi}\left (-\frac {{\mathrm e}^{x \lambda } a +b}{\lambda ^{\frac {2}{3}} a^{\frac {2}{3}}}\right ) c_{2} \right ) \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 1.332 (sec). Leaf size: 77

DSolve[y''[x]-y'[x]+(a*Exp[3*\[Lambda]*x]+b*Exp[2*\[Lambda]*x]+1/4-1/4*\[Lambda]^2  )*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(x)\to \frac {e^{x/2} \left (c_1 \operatorname {AiryAi}\left (\frac {\left (e^{x \lambda } a+b\right ) \sqrt [3]{-\frac {a}{\lambda ^2}}}{a}\right )+c_2 \operatorname {AiryBi}\left (\frac {\left (e^{x \lambda } a+b\right ) \sqrt [3]{-\frac {a}{\lambda ^2}}}{a}\right )\right )}{\sqrt {e^{\lambda x}}} \]