46.1.3 problem 4. series method

Internal problem ID [9506]
Book : DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS with Boundary Value Problems. DENNIS G. ZILL, WARREN S. WRIGHT, MICHAEL R. CULLEN. Brooks/Cole. Boston, MA. 2013. 8th edition.
Section : CHAPTER 6 SERIES SOLUTIONS OF LINEAR EQUATIONS. Section 6.2 SOLUTIONS ABOUT ORDINARY POINTS. EXERCISES 6.2. Page 246
Problem number : 4. series method
Date solved : Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 06:19:51 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _missing_x]]

\begin{align*} y^{\prime \prime }-y&=0 \end{align*}

Using series method with expansion around

\begin{align*} 0 \end{align*}
Maple. Time used: 0.007 (sec). Leaf size: 49
Order:=8; 
ode:=diff(diff(y(x),x),x)-y(x) = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(x),type='series',x=0);
 
\[ y = \left (1+\frac {1}{2} x^{2}+\frac {1}{24} x^{4}+\frac {1}{720} x^{6}\right ) y \left (0\right )+\left (x +\frac {1}{6} x^{3}+\frac {1}{120} x^{5}+\frac {1}{5040} x^{7}\right ) y^{\prime }\left (0\right )+O\left (x^{8}\right ) \]
Mathematica. Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 56
ode=D[y[x],{x,2}]-y[x]==0; 
ic={}; 
AsymptoticDSolveValue[{ode,ic},y[x],{x,0,7}]
 
\[ y(x)\to c_2 \left (\frac {x^7}{5040}+\frac {x^5}{120}+\frac {x^3}{6}+x\right )+c_1 \left (\frac {x^6}{720}+\frac {x^4}{24}+\frac {x^2}{2}+1\right ) \]
Sympy. Time used: 0.191 (sec). Leaf size: 39
from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(-y(x) + Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics,hint="2nd_power_series_ordinary",x0=0,n=8)
 
\[ y{\left (x \right )} = C_{2} \left (\frac {x^{6}}{720} + \frac {x^{4}}{24} + \frac {x^{2}}{2} + 1\right ) + C_{1} x \left (\frac {x^{4}}{120} + \frac {x^{2}}{6} + 1\right ) + O\left (x^{8}\right ) \]