4.7 problem 7

4.7.1 Maple step by step solution

Internal problem ID [6923]
Internal file name [OUTPUT/6166_Tuesday_August_09_2022_05_23_57_AM_62176316/index.tex]

Book: Elementary differential equations. Rainville, Bedient, Bedient. Prentice Hall. NJ. 8th edition. 1997.
Section: CHAPTER 18. Power series solutions. 18.4 Indicial Equation with Difference of Roots Nonintegral. Exercises page 365
Problem number: 7.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

The type(s) of ODE detected by this program : "second order series method. Regular singular point. Difference not integer"

Maple gives the following as the ode type

[[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]

\[ \boxed {8 x^{2} y^{\prime \prime }+10 y^{\prime } x -\left (1+x \right ) y=0} \] With the expansion point for the power series method at \(x = 0\).

The type of the expansion point is first determined. This is done on the homogeneous part of the ODE. \[ 8 x^{2} y^{\prime \prime }+10 y^{\prime } x +\left (-x -1\right ) y = 0 \] The following is summary of singularities for the above ode. Writing the ode as \begin {align*} y^{\prime \prime }+p(x) y^{\prime } + q(x) y &=0 \end {align*}

Where \begin {align*} p(x) &= \frac {5}{4 x}\\ q(x) &= -\frac {1+x}{8 x^{2}}\\ \end {align*}

Table 11: Table \(p(x),q(x)\) singularites.
\(p(x)=\frac {5}{4 x}\)
singularity type
\(x = 0\) \(\text {``regular''}\)
\(q(x)=-\frac {1+x}{8 x^{2}}\)
singularity type
\(x = 0\) \(\text {``regular''}\)

Combining everything together gives the following summary of singularities for the ode as

Regular singular points : \([0]\)

Irregular singular points : \([\infty ]\)

Since \(x = 0\) is regular singular point, then Frobenius power series is used. The ode is normalized to be \[ 8 x^{2} y^{\prime \prime }+10 y^{\prime } x +\left (-x -1\right ) y = 0 \] Let the solution be represented as Frobenius power series of the form \[ y = \moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}a_{n} x^{n +r} \] Then \begin{align*} y^{\prime } &= \moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}\left (n +r \right ) a_{n} x^{n +r -1} \\ y^{\prime \prime } &= \moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}\left (n +r \right ) \left (n +r -1\right ) a_{n} x^{n +r -2} \\ \end{align*} Substituting the above back into the ode gives \begin{equation} \tag{1} 8 x^{2} \left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}\left (n +r \right ) \left (n +r -1\right ) a_{n} x^{n +r -2}\right )+10 \left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}\left (n +r \right ) a_{n} x^{n +r -1}\right ) x +\left (-x -1\right ) \left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}a_{n} x^{n +r}\right ) = 0 \end{equation} Which simplifies to \begin{equation} \tag{2A} \left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}8 x^{n +r} a_{n} \left (n +r \right ) \left (n +r -1\right )\right )+\left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}10 x^{n +r} a_{n} \left (n +r \right )\right )+\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}\left (-x^{1+n +r} a_{n}\right )+\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}\left (-a_{n} x^{n +r}\right ) = 0 \end{equation} The next step is to make all powers of \(x\) be \(n +r\) in each summation term. Going over each summation term above with power of \(x\) in it which is not already \(x^{n +r}\) and adjusting the power and the corresponding index gives \begin{align*} \moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}\left (-x^{1+n +r} a_{n}\right ) &= \moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =1}{\sum }}\left (-a_{n -1} x^{n +r}\right ) \\ \end{align*} Substituting all the above in Eq (2A) gives the following equation where now all powers of \(x\) are the same and equal to \(n +r\). \begin{equation} \tag{2B} \left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}8 x^{n +r} a_{n} \left (n +r \right ) \left (n +r -1\right )\right )+\left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}10 x^{n +r} a_{n} \left (n +r \right )\right )+\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =1}{\sum }}\left (-a_{n -1} x^{n +r}\right )+\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}\left (-a_{n} x^{n +r}\right ) = 0 \end{equation} The indicial equation is obtained from \(n = 0\). From Eq (2B) this gives \[ 8 x^{n +r} a_{n} \left (n +r \right ) \left (n +r -1\right )+10 x^{n +r} a_{n} \left (n +r \right )-a_{n} x^{n +r} = 0 \] When \(n = 0\) the above becomes \[ 8 x^{r} a_{0} r \left (-1+r \right )+10 x^{r} a_{0} r -a_{0} x^{r} = 0 \] Or \[ \left (8 x^{r} r \left (-1+r \right )+10 x^{r} r -x^{r}\right ) a_{0} = 0 \] Since \(a_{0}\neq 0\) then the above simplifies to \[ \left (8 r^{2}+2 r -1\right ) x^{r} = 0 \] Since the above is true for all \(x\) then the indicial equation becomes \[ 8 r^{2}+2 r -1 = 0 \] Solving for \(r\) gives the roots of the indicial equation as \begin {align*} r_1 &= {\frac {1}{4}}\\ r_2 &= -{\frac {1}{2}} \end {align*}

Since \(a_{0}\neq 0\) then the indicial equation becomes \[ \left (8 r^{2}+2 r -1\right ) x^{r} = 0 \] Solving for \(r\) gives the roots of the indicial equation as \(\left [{\frac {1}{4}}, -{\frac {1}{2}}\right ]\).

Since \(r_1 - r_2 = {\frac {3}{4}}\) is not an integer, then we can construct two linearly independent solutions \begin {align*} y_{1}\left (x \right ) &= x^{r_{1}} \left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}a_{n} x^{n}\right )\\ y_{2}\left (x \right ) &= x^{r_{2}} \left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}b_{n} x^{n}\right ) \end {align*}

Or \begin {align*} y_{1}\left (x \right ) &= \moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}a_{n} x^{n +\frac {1}{4}}\\ y_{2}\left (x \right ) &= \moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}b_{n} x^{n -\frac {1}{2}} \end {align*}

We start by finding \(y_{1}\left (x \right )\). Eq (2B) derived above is now used to find all \(a_{n}\) coefficients. The case \(n = 0\) is skipped since it was used to find the roots of the indicial equation. \(a_{0}\) is arbitrary and taken as \(a_{0} = 1\). For \(1\le n\) the recursive equation is \begin{equation} \tag{3} 8 a_{n} \left (n +r \right ) \left (n +r -1\right )+10 a_{n} \left (n +r \right )-a_{n -1}-a_{n} = 0 \end{equation} Solving for \(a_{n}\) from recursive equation (4) gives \[ a_{n} = \frac {a_{n -1}}{8 n^{2}+16 n r +8 r^{2}+2 n +2 r -1}\tag {4} \] Which for the root \(r = {\frac {1}{4}}\) becomes \[ a_{n} = \frac {a_{n -1}}{8 n^{2}+6 n}\tag {5} \] At this point, it is a good idea to keep track of \(a_{n}\) in a table both before substituting \(r = {\frac {1}{4}}\) and after as more terms are found using the above recursive equation.

\(n\) \(a_{n ,r}\) \(a_{n}\)
\(a_{0}\) \(1\) \(1\)

For \(n = 1\), using the above recursive equation gives \[ a_{1}=\frac {1}{8 r^{2}+18 r +9} \] Which for the root \(r = {\frac {1}{4}}\) becomes \[ a_{1}={\frac {1}{14}} \] And the table now becomes

\(n\) \(a_{n ,r}\) \(a_{n}\)
\(a_{0}\) \(1\) \(1\)
\(a_{1}\) \(\frac {1}{8 r^{2}+18 r +9}\) \(\frac {1}{14}\)

For \(n = 2\), using the above recursive equation gives \[ a_{2}=\frac {1}{64 r^{4}+416 r^{3}+964 r^{2}+936 r +315} \] Which for the root \(r = {\frac {1}{4}}\) becomes \[ a_{2}={\frac {1}{616}} \] And the table now becomes

\(n\) \(a_{n ,r}\) \(a_{n}\)
\(a_{0}\) \(1\) \(1\)
\(a_{1}\) \(\frac {1}{8 r^{2}+18 r +9}\) \(\frac {1}{14}\)
\(a_{2}\) \(\frac {1}{64 r^{4}+416 r^{3}+964 r^{2}+936 r +315}\) \(\frac {1}{616}\)

For \(n = 3\), using the above recursive equation gives \[ a_{3}=\frac {1}{512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255} \] Which for the root \(r = {\frac {1}{4}}\) becomes \[ a_{3}={\frac {1}{55440}} \] And the table now becomes

\(n\) \(a_{n ,r}\) \(a_{n}\)
\(a_{0}\) \(1\) \(1\)
\(a_{1}\) \(\frac {1}{8 r^{2}+18 r +9}\) \(\frac {1}{14}\)
\(a_{2}\) \(\frac {1}{64 r^{4}+416 r^{3}+964 r^{2}+936 r +315}\) \(\frac {1}{616}\)
\(a_{3}\) \(\frac {1}{512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255}\) \(\frac {1}{55440}\)

For \(n = 4\), using the above recursive equation gives \[ a_{4}=\frac {1}{\left (512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+66 r +135\right )} \] Which for the root \(r = {\frac {1}{4}}\) becomes \[ a_{4}={\frac {1}{8426880}} \] And the table now becomes

\(n\) \(a_{n ,r}\) \(a_{n}\)
\(a_{0}\) \(1\) \(1\)
\(a_{1}\) \(\frac {1}{8 r^{2}+18 r +9}\) \(\frac {1}{14}\)
\(a_{2}\) \(\frac {1}{64 r^{4}+416 r^{3}+964 r^{2}+936 r +315}\) \(\frac {1}{616}\)
\(a_{3}\) \(\frac {1}{512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255}\) \(\frac {1}{55440}\)
\(a_{4}\) \(\frac {1}{\left (512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+66 r +135\right )}\) \(\frac {1}{8426880}\)

For \(n = 5\), using the above recursive equation gives \[ a_{5}=\frac {1}{\left (512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+66 r +135\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+82 r +209\right )} \] Which for the root \(r = {\frac {1}{4}}\) becomes \[ a_{5}={\frac {1}{1938182400}} \] And the table now becomes

\(n\) \(a_{n ,r}\) \(a_{n}\)
\(a_{0}\) \(1\) \(1\)
\(a_{1}\) \(\frac {1}{8 r^{2}+18 r +9}\) \(\frac {1}{14}\)
\(a_{2}\) \(\frac {1}{64 r^{4}+416 r^{3}+964 r^{2}+936 r +315}\) \(\frac {1}{616}\)
\(a_{3}\) \(\frac {1}{512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255}\) \(\frac {1}{55440}\)
\(a_{4}\) \(\frac {1}{\left (512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+66 r +135\right )}\) \(\frac {1}{8426880}\)
\(a_{5}\) \(\frac {1}{\left (512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+66 r +135\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+82 r +209\right )}\) \(\frac {1}{1938182400}\)

For \(n = 6\), using the above recursive equation gives \[ a_{6}=\frac {1}{\left (512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+66 r +135\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+82 r +209\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+98 r +299\right )} \] Which for the root \(r = {\frac {1}{4}}\) becomes \[ a_{6}={\frac {1}{627971097600}} \] And the table now becomes

\(n\) \(a_{n ,r}\) \(a_{n}\)
\(a_{0}\) \(1\) \(1\)
\(a_{1}\) \(\frac {1}{8 r^{2}+18 r +9}\) \(\frac {1}{14}\)
\(a_{2}\) \(\frac {1}{64 r^{4}+416 r^{3}+964 r^{2}+936 r +315}\) \(\frac {1}{616}\)
\(a_{3}\) \(\frac {1}{512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255}\) \(\frac {1}{55440}\)
\(a_{4}\) \(\frac {1}{\left (512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+66 r +135\right )}\) \(\frac {1}{8426880}\)
\(a_{5}\) \(\frac {1}{\left (512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+66 r +135\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+82 r +209\right )}\) \(\frac {1}{1938182400}\)
\(a_{6}\) \(\frac {1}{\left (512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+66 r +135\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+82 r +209\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+98 r +299\right )}\) \(\frac {1}{627971097600}\)

For \(n = 7\), using the above recursive equation gives \[ a_{7}=\frac {1}{\left (512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+66 r +135\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+82 r +209\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+98 r +299\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+114 r +405\right )} \] Which for the root \(r = {\frac {1}{4}}\) becomes \[ a_{7}={\frac {1}{272539456358400}} \] And the table now becomes

\(n\) \(a_{n ,r}\) \(a_{n}\)
\(a_{0}\) \(1\) \(1\)
\(a_{1}\) \(\frac {1}{8 r^{2}+18 r +9}\) \(\frac {1}{14}\)
\(a_{2}\) \(\frac {1}{64 r^{4}+416 r^{3}+964 r^{2}+936 r +315}\) \(\frac {1}{616}\)
\(a_{3}\) \(\frac {1}{512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255}\) \(\frac {1}{55440}\)
\(a_{4}\) \(\frac {1}{\left (512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+66 r +135\right )}\) \(\frac {1}{8426880}\)
\(a_{5}\) \(\frac {1}{\left (512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+66 r +135\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+82 r +209\right )}\) \(\frac {1}{1938182400}\)
\(a_{6}\) \(\frac {1}{\left (512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+66 r +135\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+82 r +209\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+98 r +299\right )}\) \(\frac {1}{627971097600}\)
\(a_{7}\) \(\frac {1}{\left (512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+66 r +135\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+82 r +209\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+98 r +299\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+114 r +405\right )}\) \(\frac {1}{272539456358400}\)

Using the above table, then the solution \(y_{1}\left (x \right )\) is \begin {align*} y_{1}\left (x \right )&= x^{\frac {1}{4}} \left (a_{0}+a_{1} x +a_{2} x^{2}+a_{3} x^{3}+a_{4} x^{4}+a_{5} x^{5}+a_{6} x^{6}+a_{7} x^{7}+a_{8} x^{8}\dots \right ) \\ &= x^{\frac {1}{4}} \left (1+\frac {x}{14}+\frac {x^{2}}{616}+\frac {x^{3}}{55440}+\frac {x^{4}}{8426880}+\frac {x^{5}}{1938182400}+\frac {x^{6}}{627971097600}+\frac {x^{7}}{272539456358400}+O\left (x^{8}\right )\right ) \end {align*}

Now the second solution \(y_{2}\left (x \right )\) is found. Eq (2B) derived above is now used to find all \(b_{n}\) coefficients. The case \(n = 0\) is skipped since it was used to find the roots of the indicial equation. \(b_{0}\) is arbitrary and taken as \(b_{0} = 1\). For \(1\le n\) the recursive equation is \begin{equation} \tag{3} 8 b_{n} \left (n +r \right ) \left (n +r -1\right )+10 b_{n} \left (n +r \right )-b_{n -1}-b_{n} = 0 \end{equation} Solving for \(b_{n}\) from recursive equation (4) gives \[ b_{n} = \frac {b_{n -1}}{8 n^{2}+16 n r +8 r^{2}+2 n +2 r -1}\tag {4} \] Which for the root \(r = -{\frac {1}{2}}\) becomes \[ b_{n} = \frac {b_{n -1}}{8 n^{2}-6 n}\tag {5} \] At this point, it is a good idea to keep track of \(b_{n}\) in a table both before substituting \(r = -{\frac {1}{2}}\) and after as more terms are found using the above recursive equation.

\(n\) \(b_{n ,r}\) \(b_{n}\)
\(b_{0}\) \(1\) \(1\)

For \(n = 1\), using the above recursive equation gives \[ b_{1}=\frac {1}{8 r^{2}+18 r +9} \] Which for the root \(r = -{\frac {1}{2}}\) becomes \[ b_{1}={\frac {1}{2}} \] And the table now becomes

\(n\) \(b_{n ,r}\) \(b_{n}\)
\(b_{0}\) \(1\) \(1\)
\(b_{1}\) \(\frac {1}{8 r^{2}+18 r +9}\) \(\frac {1}{2}\)

For \(n = 2\), using the above recursive equation gives \[ b_{2}=\frac {1}{64 r^{4}+416 r^{3}+964 r^{2}+936 r +315} \] Which for the root \(r = -{\frac {1}{2}}\) becomes \[ b_{2}={\frac {1}{40}} \] And the table now becomes

\(n\) \(b_{n ,r}\) \(b_{n}\)
\(b_{0}\) \(1\) \(1\)
\(b_{1}\) \(\frac {1}{8 r^{2}+18 r +9}\) \(\frac {1}{2}\)
\(b_{2}\) \(\frac {1}{64 r^{4}+416 r^{3}+964 r^{2}+936 r +315}\) \(\frac {1}{40}\)

For \(n = 3\), using the above recursive equation gives \[ b_{3}=\frac {1}{512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255} \] Which for the root \(r = -{\frac {1}{2}}\) becomes \[ b_{3}={\frac {1}{2160}} \] And the table now becomes

\(n\) \(b_{n ,r}\) \(b_{n}\)
\(b_{0}\) \(1\) \(1\)
\(b_{1}\) \(\frac {1}{8 r^{2}+18 r +9}\) \(\frac {1}{2}\)
\(b_{2}\) \(\frac {1}{64 r^{4}+416 r^{3}+964 r^{2}+936 r +315}\) \(\frac {1}{40}\)
\(b_{3}\) \(\frac {1}{512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255}\) \(\frac {1}{2160}\)

For \(n = 4\), using the above recursive equation gives \[ b_{4}=\frac {1}{\left (512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+66 r +135\right )} \] Which for the root \(r = -{\frac {1}{2}}\) becomes \[ b_{4}={\frac {1}{224640}} \] And the table now becomes

\(n\) \(b_{n ,r}\) \(b_{n}\)
\(b_{0}\) \(1\) \(1\)
\(b_{1}\) \(\frac {1}{8 r^{2}+18 r +9}\) \(\frac {1}{2}\)
\(b_{2}\) \(\frac {1}{64 r^{4}+416 r^{3}+964 r^{2}+936 r +315}\) \(\frac {1}{40}\)
\(b_{3}\) \(\frac {1}{512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255}\) \(\frac {1}{2160}\)
\(b_{4}\) \(\frac {1}{\left (512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+66 r +135\right )}\) \(\frac {1}{224640}\)

For \(n = 5\), using the above recursive equation gives \[ b_{5}=\frac {1}{\left (512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+66 r +135\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+82 r +209\right )} \] Which for the root \(r = -{\frac {1}{2}}\) becomes \[ b_{5}={\frac {1}{38188800}} \] And the table now becomes

\(n\) \(b_{n ,r}\) \(b_{n}\)
\(b_{0}\) \(1\) \(1\)
\(b_{1}\) \(\frac {1}{8 r^{2}+18 r +9}\) \(\frac {1}{2}\)
\(b_{2}\) \(\frac {1}{64 r^{4}+416 r^{3}+964 r^{2}+936 r +315}\) \(\frac {1}{40}\)
\(b_{3}\) \(\frac {1}{512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255}\) \(\frac {1}{2160}\)
\(b_{4}\) \(\frac {1}{\left (512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+66 r +135\right )}\) \(\frac {1}{224640}\)
\(b_{5}\) \(\frac {1}{\left (512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+66 r +135\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+82 r +209\right )}\) \(\frac {1}{38188800}\)

For \(n = 6\), using the above recursive equation gives \[ b_{6}=\frac {1}{\left (512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+66 r +135\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+82 r +209\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+98 r +299\right )} \] Which for the root \(r = -{\frac {1}{2}}\) becomes \[ b_{6}={\frac {1}{9623577600}} \] And the table now becomes

\(n\) \(b_{n ,r}\) \(b_{n}\)
\(b_{0}\) \(1\) \(1\)
\(b_{1}\) \(\frac {1}{8 r^{2}+18 r +9}\) \(\frac {1}{2}\)
\(b_{2}\) \(\frac {1}{64 r^{4}+416 r^{3}+964 r^{2}+936 r +315}\) \(\frac {1}{40}\)
\(b_{3}\) \(\frac {1}{512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255}\) \(\frac {1}{2160}\)
\(b_{4}\) \(\frac {1}{\left (512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+66 r +135\right )}\) \(\frac {1}{224640}\)
\(b_{5}\) \(\frac {1}{\left (512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+66 r +135\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+82 r +209\right )}\) \(\frac {1}{38188800}\)
\(b_{6}\) \(\frac {1}{\left (512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+66 r +135\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+82 r +209\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+98 r +299\right )}\) \(\frac {1}{9623577600}\)

For \(n = 7\), using the above recursive equation gives \[ b_{7}=\frac {1}{\left (512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+66 r +135\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+82 r +209\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+98 r +299\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+114 r +405\right )} \] Which for the root \(r = -{\frac {1}{2}}\) becomes \[ b_{7}={\frac {1}{3368252160000}} \] And the table now becomes

\(n\) \(b_{n ,r}\) \(b_{n}\)
\(b_{0}\) \(1\) \(1\)
\(b_{1}\) \(\frac {1}{8 r^{2}+18 r +9}\) \(\frac {1}{2}\)
\(b_{2}\) \(\frac {1}{64 r^{4}+416 r^{3}+964 r^{2}+936 r +315}\) \(\frac {1}{40}\)
\(b_{3}\) \(\frac {1}{512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255}\) \(\frac {1}{2160}\)
\(b_{4}\) \(\frac {1}{\left (512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+66 r +135\right )}\) \(\frac {1}{224640}\)
\(b_{5}\) \(\frac {1}{\left (512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+66 r +135\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+82 r +209\right )}\) \(\frac {1}{38188800}\)
\(b_{6}\) \(\frac {1}{\left (512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+66 r +135\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+82 r +209\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+98 r +299\right )}\) \(\frac {1}{9623577600}\)
\(b_{7}\) \(\frac {1}{\left (512 r^{6}+6528 r^{5}+33440 r^{4}+87720 r^{3}+123548 r^{2}+87822 r +24255\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+66 r +135\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+82 r +209\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+98 r +299\right ) \left (8 r^{2}+114 r +405\right )}\) \(\frac {1}{3368252160000}\)

Using the above table, then the solution \(y_{2}\left (x \right )\) is \begin {align*} y_{2}\left (x \right )&= x^{\frac {1}{4}} \left (b_{0}+b_{1} x +b_{2} x^{2}+b_{3} x^{3}+b_{4} x^{4}+b_{5} x^{5}+b_{6} x^{6}+b_{7} x^{7}+b_{8} x^{8}\dots \right ) \\ &= \frac {1+\frac {x}{2}+\frac {x^{2}}{40}+\frac {x^{3}}{2160}+\frac {x^{4}}{224640}+\frac {x^{5}}{38188800}+\frac {x^{6}}{9623577600}+\frac {x^{7}}{3368252160000}+O\left (x^{8}\right )}{\sqrt {x}} \end {align*}

Therefore the homogeneous solution is \begin{align*} y_h(x) &= c_{1} y_{1}\left (x \right )+c_{2} y_{2}\left (x \right ) \\ &= c_{1} x^{\frac {1}{4}} \left (1+\frac {x}{14}+\frac {x^{2}}{616}+\frac {x^{3}}{55440}+\frac {x^{4}}{8426880}+\frac {x^{5}}{1938182400}+\frac {x^{6}}{627971097600}+\frac {x^{7}}{272539456358400}+O\left (x^{8}\right )\right ) + \frac {c_{2} \left (1+\frac {x}{2}+\frac {x^{2}}{40}+\frac {x^{3}}{2160}+\frac {x^{4}}{224640}+\frac {x^{5}}{38188800}+\frac {x^{6}}{9623577600}+\frac {x^{7}}{3368252160000}+O\left (x^{8}\right )\right )}{\sqrt {x}} \\ \end{align*} Hence the final solution is \begin{align*} y &= y_h \\ &= c_{1} x^{\frac {1}{4}} \left (1+\frac {x}{14}+\frac {x^{2}}{616}+\frac {x^{3}}{55440}+\frac {x^{4}}{8426880}+\frac {x^{5}}{1938182400}+\frac {x^{6}}{627971097600}+\frac {x^{7}}{272539456358400}+O\left (x^{8}\right )\right )+\frac {c_{2} \left (1+\frac {x}{2}+\frac {x^{2}}{40}+\frac {x^{3}}{2160}+\frac {x^{4}}{224640}+\frac {x^{5}}{38188800}+\frac {x^{6}}{9623577600}+\frac {x^{7}}{3368252160000}+O\left (x^{8}\right )\right )}{\sqrt {x}} \\ \end{align*}

Summary

The solution(s) found are the following \begin{align*} \tag{1} y &= c_{1} x^{\frac {1}{4}} \left (1+\frac {x}{14}+\frac {x^{2}}{616}+\frac {x^{3}}{55440}+\frac {x^{4}}{8426880}+\frac {x^{5}}{1938182400}+\frac {x^{6}}{627971097600}+\frac {x^{7}}{272539456358400}+O\left (x^{8}\right )\right )+\frac {c_{2} \left (1+\frac {x}{2}+\frac {x^{2}}{40}+\frac {x^{3}}{2160}+\frac {x^{4}}{224640}+\frac {x^{5}}{38188800}+\frac {x^{6}}{9623577600}+\frac {x^{7}}{3368252160000}+O\left (x^{8}\right )\right )}{\sqrt {x}} \\ \end{align*}

Verification of solutions

\[ y = c_{1} x^{\frac {1}{4}} \left (1+\frac {x}{14}+\frac {x^{2}}{616}+\frac {x^{3}}{55440}+\frac {x^{4}}{8426880}+\frac {x^{5}}{1938182400}+\frac {x^{6}}{627971097600}+\frac {x^{7}}{272539456358400}+O\left (x^{8}\right )\right )+\frac {c_{2} \left (1+\frac {x}{2}+\frac {x^{2}}{40}+\frac {x^{3}}{2160}+\frac {x^{4}}{224640}+\frac {x^{5}}{38188800}+\frac {x^{6}}{9623577600}+\frac {x^{7}}{3368252160000}+O\left (x^{8}\right )\right )}{\sqrt {x}} \] Verified OK.

4.7.1 Maple step by step solution

\[ \begin {array}{lll} & {} & \textrm {Let's solve}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & 8 x^{2} \left (\frac {d}{d x}y^{\prime }\right )+10 y^{\prime } x +\left (-x -1\right ) y=0 \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Highest derivative means the order of the ODE is}\hspace {3pt} 2 \\ {} & {} & \frac {d}{d x}y^{\prime } \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Isolate 2nd derivative}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & \frac {d}{d x}y^{\prime }=-\frac {5 y^{\prime }}{4 x}+\frac {\left (1+x \right ) y}{8 x^{2}} \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Group terms with}\hspace {3pt} y\hspace {3pt}\textrm {on the lhs of the ODE and the rest on the rhs of the ODE; ODE is linear}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & \frac {d}{d x}y^{\prime }+\frac {5 y^{\prime }}{4 x}-\frac {\left (1+x \right ) y}{8 x^{2}}=0 \\ \square & {} & \textrm {Check to see if}\hspace {3pt} x_{0}=0\hspace {3pt}\textrm {is a regular singular point}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & \circ & \textrm {Define functions}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & \left [P_{2}\left (x \right )=\frac {5}{4 x}, P_{3}\left (x \right )=-\frac {1+x}{8 x^{2}}\right ] \\ {} & \circ & x \cdot P_{2}\left (x \right )\textrm {is analytic at}\hspace {3pt} x =0 \\ {} & {} & \left (x \cdot P_{2}\left (x \right )\right )\bigg | {\mstack {}{_{x \hiderel {=}0}}}=\frac {5}{4} \\ {} & \circ & x^{2}\cdot P_{3}\left (x \right )\textrm {is analytic at}\hspace {3pt} x =0 \\ {} & {} & \left (x^{2}\cdot P_{3}\left (x \right )\right )\bigg | {\mstack {}{_{x \hiderel {=}0}}}=-\frac {1}{8} \\ {} & \circ & x =0\textrm {is a regular singular point}\hspace {3pt} \\ & {} & \textrm {Check to see if}\hspace {3pt} x_{0}=0\hspace {3pt}\textrm {is a regular singular point}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & x_{0}=0 \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Multiply by denominators}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & 8 x^{2} \left (\frac {d}{d x}y^{\prime }\right )+10 y^{\prime } x +\left (-x -1\right ) y=0 \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Assume series solution for}\hspace {3pt} y \\ {} & {} & y=\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {k =0}{\sum }}a_{k} x^{k +r} \\ \square & {} & \textrm {Rewrite ODE with series expansions}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & \circ & \textrm {Convert}\hspace {3pt} x^{m}\cdot y\hspace {3pt}\textrm {to series expansion for}\hspace {3pt} m =0..1 \\ {} & {} & x^{m}\cdot y=\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {k =0}{\sum }}a_{k} x^{k +r +m} \\ {} & \circ & \textrm {Shift index using}\hspace {3pt} k \mathrm {->}k -m \\ {} & {} & x^{m}\cdot y=\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {k =m}{\sum }}a_{k -m} x^{k +r} \\ {} & \circ & \textrm {Convert}\hspace {3pt} x \cdot y^{\prime }\hspace {3pt}\textrm {to series expansion}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & x \cdot y^{\prime }=\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {k =0}{\sum }}a_{k} \left (k +r \right ) x^{k +r} \\ {} & \circ & \textrm {Convert}\hspace {3pt} x^{2}\cdot \left (\frac {d}{d x}y^{\prime }\right )\hspace {3pt}\textrm {to series expansion}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & x^{2}\cdot \left (\frac {d}{d x}y^{\prime }\right )=\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {k =0}{\sum }}a_{k} \left (k +r \right ) \left (k +r -1\right ) x^{k +r} \\ & {} & \textrm {Rewrite ODE with series expansions}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & a_{0} \left (1+2 r \right ) \left (-1+4 r \right ) x^{r}+\left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {k =1}{\sum }}\left (a_{k} \left (2 k +2 r +1\right ) \left (4 k +4 r -1\right )-a_{k -1}\right ) x^{k +r}\right )=0 \\ \bullet & {} & a_{0}\textrm {cannot be 0 by assumption, giving the indicial equation}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & \left (1+2 r \right ) \left (-1+4 r \right )=0 \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Values of r that satisfy the indicial equation}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & r \in \left \{-\frac {1}{2}, \frac {1}{4}\right \} \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Each term in the series must be 0, giving the recursion relation}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & 8 \left (k +r +\frac {1}{2}\right ) \left (k +r -\frac {1}{4}\right ) a_{k}-a_{k -1}=0 \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Shift index using}\hspace {3pt} k \mathrm {->}k +1 \\ {} & {} & 8 \left (k +\frac {3}{2}+r \right ) \left (k +\frac {3}{4}+r \right ) a_{k +1}-a_{k}=0 \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Recursion relation that defines series solution to ODE}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & a_{k +1}=\frac {a_{k}}{\left (2 k +3+2 r \right ) \left (4 k +3+4 r \right )} \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Recursion relation for}\hspace {3pt} r =-\frac {1}{2} \\ {} & {} & a_{k +1}=\frac {a_{k}}{\left (2 k +2\right ) \left (4 k +1\right )} \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Solution for}\hspace {3pt} r =-\frac {1}{2} \\ {} & {} & \left [y=\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {k =0}{\sum }}a_{k} x^{k -\frac {1}{2}}, a_{k +1}=\frac {a_{k}}{\left (2 k +2\right ) \left (4 k +1\right )}\right ] \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Recursion relation for}\hspace {3pt} r =\frac {1}{4} \\ {} & {} & a_{k +1}=\frac {a_{k}}{\left (2 k +\frac {7}{2}\right ) \left (4 k +4\right )} \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Solution for}\hspace {3pt} r =\frac {1}{4} \\ {} & {} & \left [y=\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {k =0}{\sum }}a_{k} x^{k +\frac {1}{4}}, a_{k +1}=\frac {a_{k}}{\left (2 k +\frac {7}{2}\right ) \left (4 k +4\right )}\right ] \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Combine solutions and rename parameters}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & \left [y=\left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {k =0}{\sum }}a_{k} x^{k -\frac {1}{2}}\right )+\left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {k =0}{\sum }}b_{k} x^{k +\frac {1}{4}}\right ), a_{k +1}=\frac {a_{k}}{\left (2 k +2\right ) \left (4 k +1\right )}, b_{k +1}=\frac {b_{k}}{\left (2 k +\frac {7}{2}\right ) \left (4 k +4\right )}\right ] \end {array} \]

Maple trace

`Methods for second order ODEs: 
--- Trying classification methods --- 
trying a quadrature 
checking if the LODE has constant coefficients 
checking if the LODE is of Euler type 
trying a symmetry of the form [xi=0, eta=F(x)] 
checking if the LODE is missing y 
-> Trying a Liouvillian solution using Kovacics algorithm 
<- No Liouvillian solutions exists 
-> Trying a solution in terms of special functions: 
   -> Bessel 
   <- Bessel successful 
<- special function solution successful`
 

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.031 (sec). Leaf size: 55

Order:=8; 
dsolve(8*x^2*diff(y(x),x$2)+10*x*diff(y(x),x)-(1+x)*y(x)=0,y(x),type='series',x=0);
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = \frac {c_{2} x^{\frac {3}{4}} \left (1+\frac {1}{14} x +\frac {1}{616} x^{2}+\frac {1}{55440} x^{3}+\frac {1}{8426880} x^{4}+\frac {1}{1938182400} x^{5}+\frac {1}{627971097600} x^{6}+\frac {1}{272539456358400} x^{7}+\operatorname {O}\left (x^{8}\right )\right )+c_{1} \left (1+\frac {1}{2} x +\frac {1}{40} x^{2}+\frac {1}{2160} x^{3}+\frac {1}{224640} x^{4}+\frac {1}{38188800} x^{5}+\frac {1}{9623577600} x^{6}+\frac {1}{3368252160000} x^{7}+\operatorname {O}\left (x^{8}\right )\right )}{\sqrt {x}} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 118

AsymptoticDSolveValue[8*x^2*y''[x]+10*x*y'[x]-(1+x)*y[x]==0,y[x],{x,0,7}]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_1 \sqrt [4]{x} \left (\frac {x^7}{272539456358400}+\frac {x^6}{627971097600}+\frac {x^5}{1938182400}+\frac {x^4}{8426880}+\frac {x^3}{55440}+\frac {x^2}{616}+\frac {x}{14}+1\right )+\frac {c_2 \left (\frac {x^7}{3368252160000}+\frac {x^6}{9623577600}+\frac {x^5}{38188800}+\frac {x^4}{224640}+\frac {x^3}{2160}+\frac {x^2}{40}+\frac {x}{2}+1\right )}{\sqrt {x}} \]