6.15.33 problem 29

Internal problem ID [2031]
Book : Elementary differential equations with boundary value problems. William F. Trench. Brooks/Cole 2001
Section : Chapter 7 Series Solutions of Linear Second Equations. 7.6 THE METHOD OF FROBENIUS II. Exercises 7.6. Page 374
Problem number : 29
Date solved : Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 05:22:47 AM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]

\begin{align*} x^{2} \left (x^{2}+1\right ) y^{\prime \prime }-3 x \left (-x^{2}+1\right ) y^{\prime }+4 y&=0 \end{align*}

Using series method with expansion around

\begin{align*} 0 \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.025 (sec). Leaf size: 36

Order:=6; 
ode:=x^2*(x^2+1)*diff(diff(y(x),x),x)-3*x*(-x^2+1)*diff(y(x),x)+4*y(x) = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(x),type='series',x=0);
 

\[ y = \left (\left (c_2 \ln \left (x \right )+c_1 \right ) \left (1-2 x^{2}+3 x^{4}+\operatorname {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right )+\left (\frac {1}{2} x^{2}-x^{4}+\operatorname {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right ) c_2 \right ) x^{2} \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 61

ode=x^2*(1+x^2)*D[y[x],{x,2}]-3*x*(1-x^2)*D[y[x],x]+4*y[x]==0; 
ic={}; 
AsymptoticDSolveValue[{ode,ic},y[x],{x,0,5}]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_1 \left (3 x^4-2 x^2+1\right ) x^2+c_2 \left (\left (\frac {x^2}{2}-x^4\right ) x^2+\left (3 x^4-2 x^2+1\right ) x^2 \log (x)\right ) \]

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.378 (sec). Leaf size: 10

from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(x**2*(x**2 + 1)*Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)) - 3*x*(1 - x**2)*Derivative(y(x), x) + 4*y(x),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics,hint="2nd_power_series_regular",x0=0,n=6)
 

\[ y{\left (x \right )} = C_{1} x^{2} + O\left (x^{6}\right ) \]