46.1.11 problem 9

Internal problem ID [9514]
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 : 9
Date solved : Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 06:19:56 PM
CAS classification : [_Lienard]

\begin{align*} y^{\prime \prime }-2 x y^{\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)-2*x*diff(y(x),x)+y(x) = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(x),type='series',x=0);
 

\[ y = \left (1-\frac {1}{2} x^{2}-\frac {1}{8} x^{4}-\frac {7}{240} x^{6}\right ) y \left (0\right )+\left (x +\frac {1}{6} x^{3}+\frac {1}{24} x^{5}+\frac {1}{112} x^{7}\right ) y^{\prime }\left (0\right )+O\left (x^{8}\right ) \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 56

ode=D[y[x],{x,2}]-2*x*D[y[x],x]+y[x]==0; 
ic={}; 
AsymptoticDSolveValue[{ode,ic},y[x],{x,0,7}]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_2 \left (\frac {x^7}{112}+\frac {x^5}{24}+\frac {x^3}{6}+x\right )+c_1 \left (-\frac {7 x^6}{240}-\frac {x^4}{8}-\frac {x^2}{2}+1\right ) \]

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.216 (sec). Leaf size: 41

from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(-2*x*Derivative(y(x), x) + 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)
 

\[ y{\left (x \right )} = C_{2} \left (- \frac {7 x^{6}}{240} - \frac {x^{4}}{8} - \frac {x^{2}}{2} + 1\right ) + C_{1} x \left (\frac {x^{4}}{24} + \frac {x^{2}}{6} + 1\right ) + O\left (x^{8}\right ) \]