2.4.36 problem 33

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Internal problem ID [8351]
Book : Own collection of miscellaneous problems
Section : section 4.0
Problem number : 33
Date solved : Sunday, November 10, 2024 at 03:39:10 AM
CAS classification : [[_Emden, _Fowler], [_2nd_order, _linear, `_with_symmetry_[0,F(x)]`]]

Solve

\begin{align*} 4 x y^{\prime \prime }+2 y^{\prime }+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.

\[ 4 x y^{\prime \prime }+2 y^{\prime }+y = 0 \]

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 {1}{2 x}\\ q(x) &= \frac {1}{4 x}\\ \end{align*}
Table 2.83: Table \(p(x),q(x)\) singularites.
\(p(x)=\frac {1}{2 x}\)
singularity type
\(x = 0\) \(\text {``regular''}\)
\(q(x)=\frac {1}{4 x}\)
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

\[ 4 x y^{\prime \prime }+2 y^{\prime }+y = 0 \]

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} 4 x \left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}\left (n +r \right ) \left (n +r -1\right ) a_{n} x^{n +r -2}\right )+2 \left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}\left (n +r \right ) a_{n} x^{n +r -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 }}4 x^{n +r -1} a_{n} \left (n +r \right ) \left (n +r -1\right )\right )+\left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}2 \left (n +r \right ) a_{n} x^{n +r -1}\right )+\left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}a_{n} x^{n +r}\right ) = 0 \end{equation}

The next step is to make all powers of \(x\) be \(n +r -1\) in each summation term. Going over each summation term above with power of \(x\) in it which is not already \(x^{n +r -1}\) and adjusting the power and the corresponding index gives

\begin{align*} \moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}a_{n} x^{n +r} &= \moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =1}{\sum }}a_{n -1} x^{n +r -1} \\ \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 \(n +r -1\).

\begin{equation} \tag{2B} \left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}4 x^{n +r -1} a_{n} \left (n +r \right ) \left (n +r -1\right )\right )+\left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}2 \left (n +r \right ) a_{n} x^{n +r -1}\right )+\left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =1}{\sum }}a_{n -1} x^{n +r -1}\right ) = 0 \end{equation}

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

\[ 4 x^{n +r -1} a_{n} \left (n +r \right ) \left (n +r -1\right )+2 \left (n +r \right ) a_{n} x^{n +r -1} = 0 \]

When \(n = 0\) the above becomes

\[ 4 x^{-1+r} a_{0} r \left (-1+r \right )+2 r a_{0} x^{-1+r} = 0 \]

Or

\[ \left (4 x^{-1+r} r \left (-1+r \right )+2 r \,x^{-1+r}\right ) a_{0} = 0 \]

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

\[ \left (4 r^{2}-2 r \right ) x^{-1+r} = 0 \]

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

\[ 4 r^{2}-2 r = 0 \]

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

\begin{align*} r_1 &= {\frac {1}{2}}\\ r_2 &= 0 \end{align*}

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

\[ \left (4 r^{2}-2 r \right ) x^{-1+r} = 0 \]

Solving for \(r\) gives the roots of the indicial equation as \(\left [{\frac {1}{2}}, 0\right ]\).

Since \(r_1 - r_2 = {\frac {1}{2}}\) 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}{2}}\\ y_{2}\left (x \right ) &= \moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}b_{n} x^{n} \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} 4 a_{n} \left (n +r \right ) \left (n +r -1\right )+2 a_{n} \left (n +r \right )+a_{n -1} = 0 \end{equation}

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

\[ a_{n} = -\frac {a_{n -1}}{2 \left (2 n^{2}+4 n r +2 r^{2}-n -r \right )}\tag {4} \]

Which for the root \(r = {\frac {1}{2}}\) becomes

\[ a_{n} = -\frac {a_{n -1}}{4 n^{2}+2 n}\tag {5} \]

At this point, it is a good idea to keep track of \(a_{n}\) in a table both before substituting \(r = {\frac {1}{2}}\) 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

\[ a_{1}=-\frac {1}{4 r^{2}+6 r +2} \]

Which for the root \(r = {\frac {1}{2}}\) becomes

\[ a_{1}=-{\frac {1}{6}} \]

And the table now becomes

\(n\) \(a_{n ,r}\) \(a_{n}\)
\(a_{0}\) \(1\) \(1\)
\(a_{1}\) \(-\frac {1}{4 r^{2}+6 r +2}\) \(-{\frac {1}{6}}\)

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

\[ a_{2}=\frac {1}{16 r^{4}+80 r^{3}+140 r^{2}+100 r +24} \]

Which for the root \(r = {\frac {1}{2}}\) becomes

\[ a_{2}={\frac {1}{120}} \]

And the table now becomes

\(n\) \(a_{n ,r}\) \(a_{n}\)
\(a_{0}\) \(1\) \(1\)
\(a_{1}\) \(-\frac {1}{4 r^{2}+6 r +2}\) \(-{\frac {1}{6}}\)
\(a_{2}\) \(\frac {1}{16 r^{4}+80 r^{3}+140 r^{2}+100 r +24}\) \(\frac {1}{120}\)

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

\[ a_{3}=-\frac {1}{64 r^{6}+672 r^{5}+2800 r^{4}+5880 r^{3}+6496 r^{2}+3528 r +720} \]

Which for the root \(r = {\frac {1}{2}}\) becomes

\[ a_{3}=-{\frac {1}{5040}} \]

And the table now becomes

\(n\) \(a_{n ,r}\) \(a_{n}\)
\(a_{0}\) \(1\) \(1\)
\(a_{1}\) \(-\frac {1}{4 r^{2}+6 r +2}\) \(-{\frac {1}{6}}\)
\(a_{2}\) \(\frac {1}{16 r^{4}+80 r^{3}+140 r^{2}+100 r +24}\) \(\frac {1}{120}\)
\(a_{3}\) \(-\frac {1}{64 r^{6}+672 r^{5}+2800 r^{4}+5880 r^{3}+6496 r^{2}+3528 r +720}\) \(-{\frac {1}{5040}}\)

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

\[ a_{4}=\frac {1}{16 \left (8 r^{6}+84 r^{5}+350 r^{4}+735 r^{3}+812 r^{2}+441 r +90\right ) \left (2 r^{2}+15 r +28\right )} \]

Which for the root \(r = {\frac {1}{2}}\) becomes

\[ a_{4}={\frac {1}{362880}} \]

And the table now becomes

\(n\) \(a_{n ,r}\) \(a_{n}\)
\(a_{0}\) \(1\) \(1\)
\(a_{1}\) \(-\frac {1}{4 r^{2}+6 r +2}\) \(-{\frac {1}{6}}\)
\(a_{2}\) \(\frac {1}{16 r^{4}+80 r^{3}+140 r^{2}+100 r +24}\) \(\frac {1}{120}\)
\(a_{3}\) \(-\frac {1}{64 r^{6}+672 r^{5}+2800 r^{4}+5880 r^{3}+6496 r^{2}+3528 r +720}\) \(-{\frac {1}{5040}}\)
\(a_{4}\) \(\frac {1}{16 \left (8 r^{6}+84 r^{5}+350 r^{4}+735 r^{3}+812 r^{2}+441 r +90\right ) \left (2 r^{2}+15 r +28\right )}\) \(\frac {1}{362880}\)

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

\[ a_{5}=-\frac {1}{32 \left (8 r^{6}+84 r^{5}+350 r^{4}+735 r^{3}+812 r^{2}+441 r +90\right ) \left (2 r^{2}+15 r +28\right ) \left (2 r^{2}+19 r +45\right )} \]

Which for the root \(r = {\frac {1}{2}}\) becomes

\[ a_{5}=-{\frac {1}{39916800}} \]

And the table now becomes

\(n\) \(a_{n ,r}\) \(a_{n}\)
\(a_{0}\) \(1\) \(1\)
\(a_{1}\) \(-\frac {1}{4 r^{2}+6 r +2}\) \(-{\frac {1}{6}}\)
\(a_{2}\) \(\frac {1}{16 r^{4}+80 r^{3}+140 r^{2}+100 r +24}\) \(\frac {1}{120}\)
\(a_{3}\) \(-\frac {1}{64 r^{6}+672 r^{5}+2800 r^{4}+5880 r^{3}+6496 r^{2}+3528 r +720}\) \(-{\frac {1}{5040}}\)
\(a_{4}\) \(\frac {1}{16 \left (8 r^{6}+84 r^{5}+350 r^{4}+735 r^{3}+812 r^{2}+441 r +90\right ) \left (2 r^{2}+15 r +28\right )}\) \(\frac {1}{362880}\)
\(a_{5}\) \(-\frac {1}{32 \left (8 r^{6}+84 r^{5}+350 r^{4}+735 r^{3}+812 r^{2}+441 r +90\right ) \left (2 r^{2}+15 r +28\right ) \left (2 r^{2}+19 r +45\right )}\) \(-{\frac {1}{39916800}}\)

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

\begin{align*} y_{1}\left (x \right )&= \sqrt {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 ) \\ &= \sqrt {x}\, \left (1-\frac {x}{6}+\frac {x^{2}}{120}-\frac {x^{3}}{5040}+\frac {x^{4}}{362880}-\frac {x^{5}}{39916800}+O\left (x^{6}\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} 4 b_{n} \left (n +r \right ) \left (n +r -1\right )+2 \left (n +r \right ) b_{n}+b_{n -1} = 0 \end{equation}

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

\[ b_{n} = -\frac {b_{n -1}}{2 \left (2 n^{2}+4 n r +2 r^{2}-n -r \right )}\tag {4} \]

Which for the root \(r = 0\) becomes

\[ b_{n} = -\frac {b_{n -1}}{4 n^{2}-2 n}\tag {5} \]

At this point, it is a good idea to keep track of \(b_{n}\) in a table both before substituting \(r = 0\) 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

\[ b_{1}=-\frac {1}{4 r^{2}+6 r +2} \]

Which for the root \(r = 0\) becomes

\[ b_{1}=-{\frac {1}{2}} \]

And the table now becomes

\(n\) \(b_{n ,r}\) \(b_{n}\)
\(b_{0}\) \(1\) \(1\)
\(b_{1}\) \(-\frac {1}{4 r^{2}+6 r +2}\) \(-{\frac {1}{2}}\)

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

\[ b_{2}=\frac {1}{16 r^{4}+80 r^{3}+140 r^{2}+100 r +24} \]

Which for the root \(r = 0\) becomes

\[ b_{2}={\frac {1}{24}} \]

And the table now becomes

\(n\) \(b_{n ,r}\) \(b_{n}\)
\(b_{0}\) \(1\) \(1\)
\(b_{1}\) \(-\frac {1}{4 r^{2}+6 r +2}\) \(-{\frac {1}{2}}\)
\(b_{2}\) \(\frac {1}{16 r^{4}+80 r^{3}+140 r^{2}+100 r +24}\) \(\frac {1}{24}\)

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

\[ b_{3}=-\frac {1}{64 r^{6}+672 r^{5}+2800 r^{4}+5880 r^{3}+6496 r^{2}+3528 r +720} \]

Which for the root \(r = 0\) becomes

\[ b_{3}=-{\frac {1}{720}} \]

And the table now becomes

\(n\) \(b_{n ,r}\) \(b_{n}\)
\(b_{0}\) \(1\) \(1\)
\(b_{1}\) \(-\frac {1}{4 r^{2}+6 r +2}\) \(-{\frac {1}{2}}\)
\(b_{2}\) \(\frac {1}{16 r^{4}+80 r^{3}+140 r^{2}+100 r +24}\) \(\frac {1}{24}\)
\(b_{3}\) \(-\frac {1}{64 r^{6}+672 r^{5}+2800 r^{4}+5880 r^{3}+6496 r^{2}+3528 r +720}\) \(-{\frac {1}{720}}\)

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

\[ b_{4}=\frac {1}{16 \left (8 r^{6}+84 r^{5}+350 r^{4}+735 r^{3}+812 r^{2}+441 r +90\right ) \left (2 r^{2}+15 r +28\right )} \]

Which for the root \(r = 0\) becomes

\[ b_{4}={\frac {1}{40320}} \]

And the table now becomes

\(n\) \(b_{n ,r}\) \(b_{n}\)
\(b_{0}\) \(1\) \(1\)
\(b_{1}\) \(-\frac {1}{4 r^{2}+6 r +2}\) \(-{\frac {1}{2}}\)
\(b_{2}\) \(\frac {1}{16 r^{4}+80 r^{3}+140 r^{2}+100 r +24}\) \(\frac {1}{24}\)
\(b_{3}\) \(-\frac {1}{64 r^{6}+672 r^{5}+2800 r^{4}+5880 r^{3}+6496 r^{2}+3528 r +720}\) \(-{\frac {1}{720}}\)
\(b_{4}\) \(\frac {1}{16 \left (8 r^{6}+84 r^{5}+350 r^{4}+735 r^{3}+812 r^{2}+441 r +90\right ) \left (2 r^{2}+15 r +28\right )}\) \(\frac {1}{40320}\)

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

\[ b_{5}=-\frac {1}{32 \left (8 r^{6}+84 r^{5}+350 r^{4}+735 r^{3}+812 r^{2}+441 r +90\right ) \left (2 r^{2}+15 r +28\right ) \left (2 r^{2}+19 r +45\right )} \]

Which for the root \(r = 0\) becomes

\[ b_{5}=-{\frac {1}{3628800}} \]

And the table now becomes

\(n\) \(b_{n ,r}\) \(b_{n}\)
\(b_{0}\) \(1\) \(1\)
\(b_{1}\) \(-\frac {1}{4 r^{2}+6 r +2}\) \(-{\frac {1}{2}}\)
\(b_{2}\) \(\frac {1}{16 r^{4}+80 r^{3}+140 r^{2}+100 r +24}\) \(\frac {1}{24}\)
\(b_{3}\) \(-\frac {1}{64 r^{6}+672 r^{5}+2800 r^{4}+5880 r^{3}+6496 r^{2}+3528 r +720}\) \(-{\frac {1}{720}}\)
\(b_{4}\) \(\frac {1}{16 \left (8 r^{6}+84 r^{5}+350 r^{4}+735 r^{3}+812 r^{2}+441 r +90\right ) \left (2 r^{2}+15 r +28\right )}\) \(\frac {1}{40320}\)
\(b_{5}\) \(-\frac {1}{32 \left (8 r^{6}+84 r^{5}+350 r^{4}+735 r^{3}+812 r^{2}+441 r +90\right ) \left (2 r^{2}+15 r +28\right ) \left (2 r^{2}+19 r +45\right )}\) \(-{\frac {1}{3628800}}\)

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

\begin{align*} y_{2}\left (x \right )&= 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 \\ &= 1-\frac {x}{2}+\frac {x^{2}}{24}-\frac {x^{3}}{720}+\frac {x^{4}}{40320}-\frac {x^{5}}{3628800}+O\left (x^{6}\right ) \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 \sqrt {x}\, \left (1-\frac {x}{6}+\frac {x^{2}}{120}-\frac {x^{3}}{5040}+\frac {x^{4}}{362880}-\frac {x^{5}}{39916800}+O\left (x^{6}\right )\right ) + c_2 \left (1-\frac {x}{2}+\frac {x^{2}}{24}-\frac {x^{3}}{720}+\frac {x^{4}}{40320}-\frac {x^{5}}{3628800}+O\left (x^{6}\right )\right ) \\ \end{align*}

Hence the final solution is

\begin{align*} y &= y_h \\ &= c_1 \sqrt {x}\, \left (1-\frac {x}{6}+\frac {x^{2}}{120}-\frac {x^{3}}{5040}+\frac {x^{4}}{362880}-\frac {x^{5}}{39916800}+O\left (x^{6}\right )\right )+c_2 \left (1-\frac {x}{2}+\frac {x^{2}}{24}-\frac {x^{3}}{720}+\frac {x^{4}}{40320}-\frac {x^{5}}{3628800}+O\left (x^{6}\right )\right ) \\ \end{align*}
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\left (k +r \right ) \left (k +r -1\right ) x^{k +r -1} \\ {} & \circ & \textrm {Shift index using}\hspace {3pt} k \mathrm {->}k +1 \\ {} & {} & x \cdot \left (\frac {d^{2}}{d x^{2}}y \left (x \right )\right )=\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {k =-1}{\sum }}a_{k +1} \left (k +1+r \right ) \left (k +r \right ) x^{k +r} \\ & {} & \textrm {Rewrite ODE with series expansions}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & 2 a_{0} r \left (-1+2 r \right ) x^{-1+r}+\left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {k =0}{\sum }}\left (2 a_{k +1} \left (k +1+r \right ) \left (2 k +1+2 r \right )+a_{k}\right ) x^{k +r}\right )=0 \\ \bullet & {} & a_{0}\textrm {cannot be 0 by assumption, giving the indicial equation}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & 2 r \left (-1+2 r \right )=0 \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Values of r that satisfy the indicial equation}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & r \in \left \{0, \frac {1}{2}\right \} \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Each term in the series must be 0, giving the recursion relation}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & 4 \left (k +1+r \right ) \left (k +\frac {1}{2}+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}}{2 \left (k +1+r \right ) \left (2 k +1+2 r \right )} \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Recursion relation for}\hspace {3pt} r =0 \\ {} & {} & a_{k +1}=-\frac {a_{k}}{2 \left (k +1\right ) \left (2 k +1\right )} \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Solution for}\hspace {3pt} r =0 \\ {} & {} & \left [y \left (x \right )=\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {k =0}{\sum }}a_{k} x^{k}, a_{k +1}=-\frac {a_{k}}{2 \left (k +1\right ) \left (2 k +1\right )}\right ] \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Recursion relation for}\hspace {3pt} r =\frac {1}{2} \\ {} & {} & a_{k +1}=-\frac {a_{k}}{2 \left (k +\frac {3}{2}\right ) \left (2 k +2\right )} \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Solution for}\hspace {3pt} r =\frac {1}{2} \\ {} & {} & \left [y \left (x \right )=\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {k =0}{\sum }}a_{k} x^{k +\frac {1}{2}}, a_{k +1}=-\frac {a_{k}}{2 \left (k +\frac {3}{2}\right ) \left (2 k +2\right )}\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}\right )+\left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {k =0}{\sum }}b_{k} x^{k +\frac {1}{2}}\right ), a_{k +1}=-\frac {a_{k}}{2 \left (k +1\right ) \left (2 k +1\right )}, b_{k +1}=-\frac {b_{k}}{2 \left (k +\frac {3}{2}\right ) \left (2 k +2\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)] 
<- linear_1 successful`
 
Maple dsolve solution

Solving time : 0.020 (sec)
Leaf size : 44

dsolve(4*x*diff(diff(y(x),x),x)+2*diff(y(x),x)+y(x) = 0,y(x), 
       series,x=0)
 
\[ y = c_{1} \sqrt {x}\, \left (1-\frac {1}{6} x +\frac {1}{120} x^{2}-\frac {1}{5040} x^{3}+\frac {1}{362880} x^{4}-\frac {1}{39916800} x^{5}+\operatorname {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right )+c_{2} \left (1-\frac {1}{2} x +\frac {1}{24} x^{2}-\frac {1}{720} x^{3}+\frac {1}{40320} x^{4}-\frac {1}{3628800} x^{5}+\operatorname {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right ) \]
Mathematica DSolve solution

Solving time : 0.004 (sec)
Leaf size : 85

AsymptoticDSolveValue[{4*x*D[y[x],{x,2}] +2*D[y[x],x]+y[x] == 0,{}}, 
       y[x],{x,0,5}]
 
\[ y(x)\to c_1 \sqrt {x} \left (-\frac {x^5}{39916800}+\frac {x^4}{362880}-\frac {x^3}{5040}+\frac {x^2}{120}-\frac {x}{6}+1\right )+c_2 \left (-\frac {x^5}{3628800}+\frac {x^4}{40320}-\frac {x^3}{720}+\frac {x^2}{24}-\frac {x}{2}+1\right ) \]