23.3.354 problem 357

Internal problem ID [6068]
Book : Ordinary differential equations and their solutions. By George Moseley Murphy. 1960
Section : Part II. Chapter 3. THE DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION IS LINEAR AND OF SECOND ORDER, page 311
Problem number : 357
Date solved : Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 02:20:55 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries], [_2nd_order, _linear, `_with_symmetry_[0,F(x)]`]]

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

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 19

ode:=a^2*y(x)+x*diff(y(x),x)+(x^2+1)*diff(diff(y(x),x),x) = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 

\[ y = c_1 \sin \left (a \,\operatorname {arcsinh}\left (x \right )\right )+c_2 \cos \left (a \,\operatorname {arcsinh}\left (x \right )\right ) \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.016 (sec). Leaf size: 22

ode=a^2*y[x] + x*D[y[x],x] + (1 + x^2)*D[y[x],{x,2}] == 0; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)&\to c_1 \cos (a \text {arcsinh}(x))+c_2 \sin (a \text {arcsinh}(x)) \end{align*}

✗ Sympy

from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
a = symbols("a") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(a**2*y(x) + x*Derivative(y(x), x) + (x**2 + 1)*Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 

False