Internal problem ID [14019]
Book: Ordinary Differential Equations. An introduction to the fundamentals. Kenneth B. Howell.
second edition. CRC Press. FL, USA. 2020
Section: Chapter 36. The big theorem on the the Frobenius method. Additional Exercises. page
739
Problem number: 36.6 (c).
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [_Laguerre]
\[ \boxed {x^{2} y^{\prime \prime }-\left (x^{2}+x \right ) y^{\prime }+4 y x=0} \] With the expansion point for the power series method at \(x = 0\).
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.047 (sec). Leaf size: 52
Order:=6; dsolve(x^2*diff(y(x),x$2)-(x+x^2)*diff(y(x),x)+4*x*y(x)=0,y(x),type='series',x=0);
\[ y \left (x \right ) = c_{1} x^{2} \left (1-\frac {2}{3} x +\frac {1}{12} x^{2}+\operatorname {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right )+\ln \left (x \right ) \left (12 x^{2}-8 x^{3}+x^{4}+\operatorname {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right ) c_{2} +\left (-2-8 x -7 x^{2}+\frac {58}{3} x^{3}-\frac {25}{6} x^{4}+\frac {1}{15} x^{5}+\operatorname {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right ) c_{2} \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.025 (sec). Leaf size: 70
AsymptoticDSolveValue[x^2*y''[x]-(x+x^2)*y'[x]+4*x*y[x]==0,y[x],{x,0,5}]
\[ y(x)\to c_2 \left (\frac {x^4}{12}-\frac {2 x^3}{3}+x^2\right )+c_1 \left (\frac {1}{6} \left (14 x^4-70 x^3+39 x^2+24 x+6\right )-\frac {1}{2} x^2 \left (x^2-8 x+12\right ) \log (x)\right ) \]