2.4.22 problem 22

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Internal problem ID [8587]
Book : Own collection of miscellaneous problems
Section : section 4.0
Problem number : 22
Date solved : Thursday, December 12, 2024 at 09:31:34 AM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]

Solve

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

Using series expansion around \(x=0\)

The type of the expansion point is first determined. This is done on the homogeneous part of the ODE.

\[ x^{2} y^{\prime \prime }+\left (3 x^{2}+2 x \right ) y^{\prime }-2 y = 0 \]

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 {3 x +2}{x}\\ q(x) &= -\frac {2}{x^{2}}\\ \end{align*}
Table 2.74: Table \(p(x),q(x)\) singularites.
\(p(x)=\frac {3 x +2}{x}\)
singularity type
\(x = 0\) \(\text {``regular''}\)
\(q(x)=-\frac {2}{x^{2}}\)
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

\[ x^{2} y^{\prime \prime }+\left (3 x^{2}+2 x \right ) y^{\prime }-2 y = 0 \]

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} 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 )+\left (3 x^{2}+2 x \right ) \left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}\left (n +r \right ) a_{n} x^{n +r -1}\right )-2 \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 }}x^{n +r} a_{n} \left (n +r \right ) \left (n +r -1\right )\right )+\left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}3 x^{1+n +r} a_{n} \left (n +r \right )\right )+\left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}2 x^{n +r} a_{n} \left (n +r \right )\right )+\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}\left (-2 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 }}3 x^{1+n +r} a_{n} \left (n +r \right ) &= \moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =1}{\sum }}3 a_{n -1} \left (n +r -1\right ) x^{n +r} \\ \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 }}x^{n +r} a_{n} \left (n +r \right ) \left (n +r -1\right )\right )+\left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =1}{\sum }}3 a_{n -1} \left (n +r -1\right ) x^{n +r}\right )+\left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}2 x^{n +r} a_{n} \left (n +r \right )\right )+\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}\left (-2 a_{n} x^{n +r}\right ) = 0 \end{equation}

The indicial equation is obtained from \(n = 0\). From Eq (2B) this gives

\[ x^{n +r} a_{n} \left (n +r \right ) \left (n +r -1\right )+2 x^{n +r} a_{n} \left (n +r \right )-2 a_{n} x^{n +r} = 0 \]

When \(n = 0\) the above becomes

\[ x^{r} a_{0} r \left (-1+r \right )+2 x^{r} a_{0} r -2 a_{0} x^{r} = 0 \]

Or

\[ \left (x^{r} r \left (-1+r \right )+2 x^{r} r -2 x^{r}\right ) a_{0} = 0 \]

Since \(a_{0}\neq 0\) then the above simplifies to

\[ \left (r^{2}+r -2\right ) x^{r} = 0 \]

Since the above is true for all \(x\) then the indicial equation becomes

\[ r^{2}+r -2 = 0 \]

Solving for \(r\) gives the roots of the indicial equation as

\begin{align*} r_1 &= 1\\ r_2 &= -2 \end{align*}

Since \(a_{0}\neq 0\) then the indicial equation becomes

\[ \left (r^{2}+r -2\right ) x^{r} = 0 \]

Solving for \(r\) gives the roots of the indicial equation as \([1, -2]\).

Since \(r_1 - r_2 = 3\) is 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 ) &= C y_{1}\left (x \right ) \ln \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 ) &= x \left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}a_{n} x^{n}\right )\\ y_{2}\left (x \right ) &= C y_{1}\left (x \right ) \ln \left (x \right )+\frac {\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}b_{n} x^{n}}{x^{2}} \end{align*}

Or

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

Where \(C\) above can be zero. We start by finding \(y_{1}\). 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} a_{n} \left (n +r \right ) \left (n +r -1\right )+3 a_{n -1} \left (n +r -1\right )+2 a_{n} \left (n +r \right )-2 a_{n} = 0 \end{equation}

Solving for \(a_{n}\) from recursive equation (4) gives

\[ a_{n} = -\frac {3 a_{n -1}}{n +r +2}\tag {4} \]

Which for the root \(r = 1\) becomes

\[ a_{n} = -\frac {3 a_{n -1}}{n +3}\tag {5} \]

At this point, it is a good idea to keep track of \(a_{n}\) in a table both before substituting \(r = 1\) 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

\[ a_{1}=-\frac {3}{3+r} \]

Which for the root \(r = 1\) becomes

\[ a_{1}=-{\frac {3}{4}} \]

And the table now becomes

\(n\) \(a_{n ,r}\) \(a_{n}\)
\(a_{0}\) \(1\) \(1\)
\(a_{1}\) \(-\frac {3}{3+r}\) \(-{\frac {3}{4}}\)

For \(n = 2\), using the above recursive equation gives

\[ a_{2}=\frac {9}{\left (3+r \right ) \left (4+r \right )} \]

Which for the root \(r = 1\) becomes

\[ a_{2}={\frac {9}{20}} \]

And the table now becomes

\(n\) \(a_{n ,r}\) \(a_{n}\)
\(a_{0}\) \(1\) \(1\)
\(a_{1}\) \(-\frac {3}{3+r}\) \(-{\frac {3}{4}}\)
\(a_{2}\) \(\frac {9}{\left (3+r \right ) \left (4+r \right )}\) \(\frac {9}{20}\)

For \(n = 3\), using the above recursive equation gives

\[ a_{3}=-\frac {27}{\left (3+r \right ) \left (4+r \right ) \left (5+r \right )} \]

Which for the root \(r = 1\) becomes

\[ a_{3}=-{\frac {9}{40}} \]

And the table now becomes

\(n\) \(a_{n ,r}\) \(a_{n}\)
\(a_{0}\) \(1\) \(1\)
\(a_{1}\) \(-\frac {3}{3+r}\) \(-{\frac {3}{4}}\)
\(a_{2}\) \(\frac {9}{\left (3+r \right ) \left (4+r \right )}\) \(\frac {9}{20}\)
\(a_{3}\) \(-\frac {27}{\left (3+r \right ) \left (4+r \right ) \left (5+r \right )}\) \(-{\frac {9}{40}}\)

For \(n = 4\), using the above recursive equation gives

\[ a_{4}=\frac {81}{\left (4+r \right ) \left (5+r \right ) \left (3+r \right ) \left (6+r \right )} \]

Which for the root \(r = 1\) becomes

\[ a_{4}={\frac {27}{280}} \]

And the table now becomes

\(n\) \(a_{n ,r}\) \(a_{n}\)
\(a_{0}\) \(1\) \(1\)
\(a_{1}\) \(-\frac {3}{3+r}\) \(-{\frac {3}{4}}\)
\(a_{2}\) \(\frac {9}{\left (3+r \right ) \left (4+r \right )}\) \(\frac {9}{20}\)
\(a_{3}\) \(-\frac {27}{\left (3+r \right ) \left (4+r \right ) \left (5+r \right )}\) \(-{\frac {9}{40}}\)
\(a_{4}\) \(\frac {81}{\left (4+r \right ) \left (5+r \right ) \left (3+r \right ) \left (6+r \right )}\) \(\frac {27}{280}\)

For \(n = 5\), using the above recursive equation gives

\[ a_{5}=-\frac {243}{\left (5+r \right ) \left (3+r \right ) \left (6+r \right ) \left (7+r \right ) \left (4+r \right )} \]

Which for the root \(r = 1\) becomes

\[ a_{5}=-{\frac {81}{2240}} \]

And the table now becomes

\(n\) \(a_{n ,r}\) \(a_{n}\)
\(a_{0}\) \(1\) \(1\)
\(a_{1}\) \(-\frac {3}{3+r}\) \(-{\frac {3}{4}}\)
\(a_{2}\) \(\frac {9}{\left (3+r \right ) \left (4+r \right )}\) \(\frac {9}{20}\)
\(a_{3}\) \(-\frac {27}{\left (3+r \right ) \left (4+r \right ) \left (5+r \right )}\) \(-{\frac {9}{40}}\)
\(a_{4}\) \(\frac {81}{\left (4+r \right ) \left (5+r \right ) \left (3+r \right ) \left (6+r \right )}\) \(\frac {27}{280}\)
\(a_{5}\) \(-\frac {243}{\left (5+r \right ) \left (3+r \right ) \left (6+r \right ) \left (7+r \right ) \left (4+r \right )}\) \(-{\frac {81}{2240}}\)

Using the above table, then the solution \(y_{1}\left (x \right )\) is

\begin{align*} y_{1}\left (x \right )&= x \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}\dots \right ) \\ &= x \left (1-\frac {3 x}{4}+\frac {9 x^{2}}{20}-\frac {9 x^{3}}{40}+\frac {27 x^{4}}{280}-\frac {81 x^{5}}{2240}+O\left (x^{6}\right )\right ) \end{align*}

Now the second solution \(y_{2}\left (x \right )\) is found. Let

\[ r_{1}-r_{2} = N \]

Where \(N\) is positive integer which is the difference between the two roots. \(r_{1}\) is taken as the larger root. Hence for this problem we have \(N=3\). Now we need to determine if \(C\) is zero or not. This is done by finding \(\lim _{r\rightarrow r_{2}}a_{3}\left (r \right )\). If this limit exists, then \(C = 0\), else we need to keep the log term and \(C \neq 0\). The above table shows that

\begin{align*} a_N &= a_{3} \\ &= -\frac {27}{\left (3+r \right ) \left (4+r \right ) \left (5+r \right )} \end{align*}

Therefore

\begin{align*} \lim _{r\rightarrow r_{2}}-\frac {27}{\left (3+r \right ) \left (4+r \right ) \left (5+r \right )}&= \lim _{r\rightarrow -2}-\frac {27}{\left (3+r \right ) \left (4+r \right ) \left (5+r \right )}\\ &= -{\frac {9}{2}} \end{align*}

The limit is \(-{\frac {9}{2}}\). Since the limit exists then the log term is not needed and we can set \(C = 0\). Therefore the second solution has the form

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

Eq (3) derived above is 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{4} b_{n} \left (n +r \right ) \left (n +r -1\right )+3 b_{n -1} \left (n +r -1\right )+2 b_{n} \left (n +r \right )-2 b_{n} = 0 \end{equation}

Which for for the root \(r = -2\) becomes

\begin{equation} \tag{4A} b_{n} \left (n -2\right ) \left (n -3\right )+3 b_{n -1} \left (n -3\right )+2 b_{n} \left (n -2\right )-2 b_{n} = 0 \end{equation}

Solving for \(b_{n}\) from the recursive equation (4) gives

\[ b_{n} = -\frac {3 b_{n -1}}{n +r +2}\tag {5} \]

Which for the root \(r = -2\) becomes

\[ b_{n} = -\frac {3 b_{n -1}}{n}\tag {6} \]

At this point, it is a good idea to keep track of \(b_{n}\) in a table both before substituting \(r = -2\) 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

\[ b_{1}=-\frac {3}{3+r} \]

Which for the root \(r = -2\) becomes

\[ b_{1}=-3 \]

And the table now becomes

\(n\) \(b_{n ,r}\) \(b_{n}\)
\(b_{0}\) \(1\) \(1\)
\(b_{1}\) \(-\frac {3}{3+r}\) \(-3\)

For \(n = 2\), using the above recursive equation gives

\[ b_{2}=\frac {9}{\left (3+r \right ) \left (4+r \right )} \]

Which for the root \(r = -2\) becomes

\[ b_{2}={\frac {9}{2}} \]

And the table now becomes

\(n\) \(b_{n ,r}\) \(b_{n}\)
\(b_{0}\) \(1\) \(1\)
\(b_{1}\) \(-\frac {3}{3+r}\) \(-3\)
\(b_{2}\) \(\frac {9}{\left (3+r \right ) \left (4+r \right )}\) \(\frac {9}{2}\)

For \(n = 3\), using the above recursive equation gives

\[ b_{3}=-\frac {27}{\left (3+r \right ) \left (4+r \right ) \left (5+r \right )} \]

Which for the root \(r = -2\) becomes

\[ b_{3}=-{\frac {9}{2}} \]

And the table now becomes

\(n\) \(b_{n ,r}\) \(b_{n}\)
\(b_{0}\) \(1\) \(1\)
\(b_{1}\) \(-\frac {3}{3+r}\) \(-3\)
\(b_{2}\) \(\frac {9}{\left (3+r \right ) \left (4+r \right )}\) \(\frac {9}{2}\)
\(b_{3}\) \(-\frac {27}{\left (3+r \right ) \left (4+r \right ) \left (5+r \right )}\) \(-{\frac {9}{2}}\)

For \(n = 4\), using the above recursive equation gives

\[ b_{4}=\frac {81}{\left (4+r \right ) \left (5+r \right ) \left (3+r \right ) \left (6+r \right )} \]

Which for the root \(r = -2\) becomes

\[ b_{4}={\frac {27}{8}} \]

And the table now becomes

\(n\) \(b_{n ,r}\) \(b_{n}\)
\(b_{0}\) \(1\) \(1\)
\(b_{1}\) \(-\frac {3}{3+r}\) \(-3\)
\(b_{2}\) \(\frac {9}{\left (3+r \right ) \left (4+r \right )}\) \(\frac {9}{2}\)
\(b_{3}\) \(-\frac {27}{\left (3+r \right ) \left (4+r \right ) \left (5+r \right )}\) \(-{\frac {9}{2}}\)
\(b_{4}\) \(\frac {81}{\left (4+r \right ) \left (5+r \right ) \left (3+r \right ) \left (6+r \right )}\) \(\frac {27}{8}\)

For \(n = 5\), using the above recursive equation gives

\[ b_{5}=-\frac {243}{\left (5+r \right ) \left (3+r \right ) \left (6+r \right ) \left (7+r \right ) \left (4+r \right )} \]

Which for the root \(r = -2\) becomes

\[ b_{5}=-{\frac {81}{40}} \]

And the table now becomes

\(n\) \(b_{n ,r}\) \(b_{n}\)
\(b_{0}\) \(1\) \(1\)
\(b_{1}\) \(-\frac {3}{3+r}\) \(-3\)
\(b_{2}\) \(\frac {9}{\left (3+r \right ) \left (4+r \right )}\) \(\frac {9}{2}\)
\(b_{3}\) \(-\frac {27}{\left (3+r \right ) \left (4+r \right ) \left (5+r \right )}\) \(-{\frac {9}{2}}\)
\(b_{4}\) \(\frac {81}{\left (4+r \right ) \left (5+r \right ) \left (3+r \right ) \left (6+r \right )}\) \(\frac {27}{8}\)
\(b_{5}\) \(-\frac {243}{\left (5+r \right ) \left (3+r \right ) \left (6+r \right ) \left (7+r \right ) \left (4+r \right )}\) \(-{\frac {81}{40}}\)

Using the above table, then the solution \(y_{2}\left (x \right )\) is

\begin{align*} y_{2}\left (x \right )&= x \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}\dots \right ) \\ &= \frac {1-3 x +\frac {9 x^{2}}{2}-\frac {9 x^{3}}{2}+\frac {27 x^{4}}{8}-\frac {81 x^{5}}{40}+O\left (x^{6}\right )}{x^{2}} \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 \left (1-\frac {3 x}{4}+\frac {9 x^{2}}{20}-\frac {9 x^{3}}{40}+\frac {27 x^{4}}{280}-\frac {81 x^{5}}{2240}+O\left (x^{6}\right )\right ) + \frac {c_2 \left (1-3 x +\frac {9 x^{2}}{2}-\frac {9 x^{3}}{2}+\frac {27 x^{4}}{8}-\frac {81 x^{5}}{40}+O\left (x^{6}\right )\right )}{x^{2}} \\ \end{align*}

Hence the final solution is

\begin{align*} y &= y_h \\ &= c_1 x \left (1-\frac {3 x}{4}+\frac {9 x^{2}}{20}-\frac {9 x^{3}}{40}+\frac {27 x^{4}}{280}-\frac {81 x^{5}}{2240}+O\left (x^{6}\right )\right )+\frac {c_2 \left (1-3 x +\frac {9 x^{2}}{2}-\frac {9 x^{3}}{2}+\frac {27 x^{4}}{8}-\frac {81 x^{5}}{40}+O\left (x^{6}\right )\right )}{x^{2}} \\ \end{align*}
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\left (x \right )\right )+x \left (3 x +2\right ) \left (\frac {d}{d x}y \left (x \right )\right )-2 y \left (x \right )=0 \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Assume series solution for}\hspace {3pt} y \left (x \right ) \\ {} & {} & y \left (x \right )=\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 \left (\frac {d}{d x}y \left (x \right )\right )\hspace {3pt}\textrm {to series expansion for}\hspace {3pt} m =1..2 \\ {} & {} & x^{m}\cdot \left (\frac {d}{d x}y \left (x \right )\right )=\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {k =0}{\sum }}a_{k} \left (k +r \right ) x^{k +r -1+m} \\ {} & \circ & \textrm {Shift index using}\hspace {3pt} k \mathrm {->}k +1-m \\ {} & {} & x^{m}\cdot \left (\frac {d}{d x}y \left (x \right )\right )=\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {k =-1+m}{\sum }}a_{k +1-m} \left (k +1-m +r \right ) x^{k +r} \\ {} & \circ & \textrm {Convert}\hspace {3pt} x^{2}\cdot \left (\frac {d^{2}}{d x^{2}}y \left (x \right )\right )\hspace {3pt}\textrm {to series expansion}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & x^{2}\cdot \left (\frac {d^{2}}{d x^{2}}y \left (x \right )\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 (2+r \right ) \left (-1+r \right ) x^{r}+\left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {k =1}{\sum }}\left (a_{k} \left (k +r +2\right ) \left (k +r -1\right )+3 a_{k -1} \left (k +r -1\right )\right ) x^{k +r}\right )=0 \\ \bullet & {} & a_{0}\textrm {cannot be 0 by assumption, giving the indicial equation}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & \left (2+r \right ) \left (-1+r \right )=0 \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Values of r that satisfy the indicial equation}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & r \in \left \{-2, 1\right \} \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Each term in the series must be 0, giving the recursion relation}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & \left (k +r -1\right ) \left (a_{k} \left (k +r +2\right )+3 a_{k -1}\right )=0 \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Shift index using}\hspace {3pt} k \mathrm {->}k +1 \\ {} & {} & \left (k +r \right ) \left (a_{k +1} \left (k +3+r \right )+3 a_{k}\right )=0 \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Recursion relation that defines series solution to ODE}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & a_{k +1}=-\frac {3 a_{k}}{k +3+r} \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Recursion relation for}\hspace {3pt} r =-2 \\ {} & {} & a_{k +1}=-\frac {3 a_{k}}{k +1} \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Solution for}\hspace {3pt} r =-2 \\ {} & {} & \left [y \left (x \right )=\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {k =0}{\sum }}a_{k} x^{k -2}, a_{k +1}=-\frac {3 a_{k}}{k +1}\right ] \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Recursion relation for}\hspace {3pt} r =1 \\ {} & {} & a_{k +1}=-\frac {3 a_{k}}{k +4} \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Solution for}\hspace {3pt} r =1 \\ {} & {} & \left [y \left (x \right )=\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {k =0}{\sum }}a_{k} x^{k +1}, a_{k +1}=-\frac {3 a_{k}}{k +4}\right ] \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Combine solutions and rename parameters}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & \left [y \left (x \right )=\left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {k =0}{\sum }}a_{k} x^{k -2}\right )+\left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {k =0}{\sum }}b_{k} x^{k +1}\right ), a_{k +1}=-\frac {3 a_{k}}{k +1}, b_{k +1}=-\frac {3 b_{k}}{4+k}\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 
   A Liouvillian solution exists 
   Reducible group (found an exponential solution) 
   Reducible group (found another exponential solution) 
<- Kovacics algorithm successful`
 
Maple dsolve solution

Solving time : 0.023 (sec)
Leaf size : 45

dsolve(x^2*diff(diff(y(x),x),x)+(3*x^2+2*x)*diff(y(x),x)-2*y(x) = 0,y(x), 
       series,x=0)
 
\[ y = c_{1} x \left (1-\frac {3}{4} x +\frac {9}{20} x^{2}-\frac {9}{40} x^{3}+\frac {27}{280} x^{4}-\frac {81}{2240} x^{5}+\operatorname {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right )+\frac {c_{2} \left (12-36 x +54 x^{2}-54 x^{3}+\frac {81}{2} x^{4}-\frac {243}{10} x^{5}+\operatorname {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right )}{x^{2}} \]
Mathematica DSolve solution

Solving time : 0.028 (sec)
Leaf size : 64

AsymptoticDSolveValue[{x^2*D[y[x],{x,2}]+(2*x+3*x^2)*D[y[x],x]-2*y[x]==0,{}}, 
       y[x],{x,0,5}]
 
\[ y(x)\to c_1 \left (\frac {27 x^2}{8}+\frac {1}{x^2}-\frac {9 x}{2}-\frac {3}{x}+\frac {9}{2}\right )+c_2 \left (\frac {27 x^5}{280}-\frac {9 x^4}{40}+\frac {9 x^3}{20}-\frac {3 x^2}{4}+x\right ) \]