14.26.12 problem 4

Internal problem ID [4037]
Book : Differential equations and linear algebra, Stephen W. Goode and Scott A Annin. Fourth edition, 2015
Section : Chapter 11, Series Solutions to Linear Differential Equations. Exercises for 11.5. page 771
Problem number : 4
Date solved : Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 07:00:46 AM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]

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

Using series method with expansion around

\begin{align*} 0 \end{align*}
Maple. Time used: 0.030 (sec). Leaf size: 47
Order:=6; 
ode:=x^2*diff(diff(y(x),x),x)+x^2*diff(y(x),x)-(x+2)*y(x) = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(x),type='series',x=0);
 
\[ y = c_1 \,x^{2} \left (1-\frac {1}{4} x +\frac {1}{20} x^{2}-\frac {1}{120} x^{3}+\frac {1}{840} x^{4}-\frac {1}{6720} x^{5}+\operatorname {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right )+\frac {c_2 \left (12-12 x +6 x^{2}-2 x^{3}+\frac {1}{2} x^{4}-\frac {1}{10} x^{5}+\operatorname {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right )}{x} \]
Mathematica. Time used: 0.015 (sec). Leaf size: 66
ode=x^2*D[y[x],{x,2}]+x^2*D[y[x],x]-(2+x)*y[x]==0; 
ic={}; 
AsymptoticDSolveValue[{ode,ic},y[x],{x,0,5}]
 
\[ y(x)\to c_1 \left (\frac {x^3}{24}-\frac {x^2}{6}+\frac {x}{2}+\frac {1}{x}-1\right )+c_2 \left (\frac {x^6}{840}-\frac {x^5}{120}+\frac {x^4}{20}-\frac {x^3}{4}+x^2\right ) \]
Sympy. Time used: 0.315 (sec). Leaf size: 37
from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(x**2*Derivative(y(x), x) + x**2*Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)) - (x + 2)*y(x),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics,hint="2nd_power_series_regular",x0=0,n=6)
 
\[ y{\left (x \right )} = C_{2} x^{2} \left (- \frac {x^{3}}{120} + \frac {x^{2}}{20} - \frac {x}{4} + 1\right ) + \frac {C_{1} \left (\frac {x^{2}}{2} - x + 1\right )}{x} + O\left (x^{6}\right ) \]