23.18 problem 33.5 (f)

Internal problem ID [13928]

Book: Ordinary Differential Equations. An introduction to the fundamentals. Kenneth B. Howell. second edition. CRC Press. FL, USA. 2020
Section: Chapter 33. Power series solutions I: Basic computational methods. Additional Exercises. page 641
Problem number: 33.5 (f).
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [_Gegenbauer, [_2nd_order, _linear, `_with_symmetry_[0,F(x)]`]]

\[ \boxed {\left (-x^{2}+1\right ) y^{\prime \prime }-y^{\prime } x +4 y=0} \] With the expansion point for the power series method at \(x = 0\).

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 29

Order:=6; 
dsolve((1-x^2)*diff(y(x),x$2)-x*diff(y(x),x)+4*y(x)=0,y(x),type='series',x=0);
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = \left (-2 x^{2}+1\right ) y \left (0\right )+\left (x -\frac {1}{2} x^{3}-\frac {1}{8} x^{5}\right ) D\left (y \right )\left (0\right )+O\left (x^{6}\right ) \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 33

AsymptoticDSolveValue[(1-x^2)*y''[x]-x*y'[x]+4*y[x]==0,y[x],{x,0,5}]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_1 \left (1-2 x^2\right )+c_2 \left (-\frac {x^5}{8}-\frac {x^3}{2}+x\right ) \]