4.51 problem 48

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Internal problem ID [7920]
Book : Own collection of miscellaneous problems
Section : section 4.0
Problem number : 48
Date solved : Monday, October 21, 2024 at 04:34:55 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]

Solve

\begin{align*} \left (x^{2}-x \right ) y^{\prime \prime }-x 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.

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

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}{x -1}\\ q(x) &= \frac {1}{x \left (x -1\right )}\\ \end{align*}
Table 97: Table \(p(x),q(x)\) singularites.
\(p(x)=-\frac {1}{x -1}\)
singularity type
\(x = 1\) \(\text {``regular''}\)
\(q(x)=\frac {1}{x \left (x -1\right )}\)
singularity type
\(x = 0\) \(\text {``regular''}\)
\(x = 1\) \(\text {``regular''}\)

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

Regular singular points : \([1, 0, \infty ]\)

Irregular singular points : \([]\)

Since \(x = 0\) is regular singular point, then Frobenius power series is used. The ode is normalized to be

\[ x \left (x -1\right ) y^{\prime \prime }-x y^{\prime }+y = 0 \]

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

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

When \(n = 0\) the above becomes

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

Or

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

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

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

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

\[ -r \left (-1+r \right ) = 0 \]

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

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

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

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

Solving for \(r\) gives the roots of the indicial equation as \([1, 0]\).

Since \(r_1 - r_2 = 1\) 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 )+\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 +1}\\ 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}\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 -1} \left (n +r -1\right ) \left (n +r -2\right )-a_{n} \left (n +r \right ) \left (n +r -1\right )-a_{n -1} \left (n +r -1\right )+a_{n -1} = 0 \end{equation}

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

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

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

\[ a_{n} = \frac {a_{n -1} \left (n -1\right )^{2}}{\left (n +1\right ) n}\tag {5} \]

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

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

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

\[ a_{1}=0 \]

And the table now becomes

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

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

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

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

\[ a_{2}=0 \]

And the table now becomes

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

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

\[ a_{3}=\frac {\left (-1+r \right )^{2} r}{\left (3+r \right ) \left (2+r \right )^{2}} \]

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

\[ a_{3}=0 \]

And the table now becomes

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

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

\[ a_{4}=\frac {\left (-1+r \right )^{2} r}{\left (4+r \right ) \left (3+r \right )^{2}} \]

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

\[ a_{4}=0 \]

And the table now becomes

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

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

\[ a_{5}=\frac {\left (-1+r \right )^{2} r}{\left (5+r \right ) \left (4+r \right )^{2}} \]

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

\[ a_{5}=0 \]

And the table now becomes

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

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+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 \(N=1\). Now we need to determine if \(C\) is zero or not. This is done by finding \(\lim _{r\rightarrow r_{2}}a_{1}\left (r \right )\). 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_{1} \\ &= \frac {\left (-1+r \right )^{2}}{\left (1+r \right ) r} \end{align*}

Therefore

\begin{align*} \lim _{r\rightarrow r_{2}}\frac {\left (-1+r \right )^{2}}{\left (1+r \right ) r}&= \lim _{r\rightarrow 0}\frac {\left (-1+r \right )^{2}}{\left (1+r \right ) r}\\ &= \textit {undefined} \end{align*}

Since the limit does not exist then the log term is needed. Therefore the second solution has the form

\[ y_{2}\left (x \right ) = C y_{1}\left (x \right ) \ln \left (x \right )+\left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}b_{n} x^{n +r_{2}}\right ) \]

Therefore

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

Substituting these back into the given ode \(x \left (x -1\right ) y^{\prime \prime }-x y^{\prime }+y = 0\) gives

\[ x \left (x -1\right ) \left (C y_{1}^{\prime \prime }\left (x \right ) \ln \left (x \right )+\frac {2 C y_{1}^{\prime }\left (x \right )}{x}-\frac {C y_{1}\left (x \right )}{x^{2}}+\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}\left (\frac {b_{n} x^{n +r_{2}} \left (n +r_{2}\right )^{2}}{x^{2}}-\frac {b_{n} x^{n +r_{2}} \left (n +r_{2}\right )}{x^{2}}\right )\right )-x \left (C y_{1}^{\prime }\left (x \right ) \ln \left (x \right )+\frac {C y_{1}\left (x \right )}{x}+\left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}\frac {b_{n} x^{n +r_{2}} \left (n +r_{2}\right )}{x}\right )\right )+C y_{1}\left (x \right ) \ln \left (x \right )+\left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}b_{n} x^{n +r_{2}}\right ) = 0 \]

Which can be written as

\begin{equation} \tag{7} \left (\left (x \left (x -1\right ) y_{1}^{\prime \prime }\left (x \right )-y_{1}^{\prime }\left (x \right ) x +y_{1}\left (x \right )\right ) \ln \left (x \right )+x \left (x -1\right ) \left (\frac {2 y_{1}^{\prime }\left (x \right )}{x}-\frac {y_{1}\left (x \right )}{x^{2}}\right )-y_{1}\left (x \right )\right ) C +x \left (x -1\right ) \left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}\left (\frac {b_{n} x^{n +r_{2}} \left (n +r_{2}\right )^{2}}{x^{2}}-\frac {b_{n} x^{n +r_{2}} \left (n +r_{2}\right )}{x^{2}}\right )\right )-x \left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}\frac {b_{n} x^{n +r_{2}} \left (n +r_{2}\right )}{x}\right )+\left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}b_{n} x^{n +r_{2}}\right ) = 0 \end{equation}

But since \(y_{1}\left (x \right )\) is a solution to the ode, then

\[ x \left (x -1\right ) y_{1}^{\prime \prime }\left (x \right )-y_{1}^{\prime }\left (x \right ) x +y_{1}\left (x \right ) = 0 \]

Eq (7) simplifes to

\begin{equation} \tag{8} \left (x \left (x -1\right ) \left (\frac {2 y_{1}^{\prime }\left (x \right )}{x}-\frac {y_{1}\left (x \right )}{x^{2}}\right )-y_{1}\left (x \right )\right ) C +x \left (x -1\right ) \left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}\left (\frac {b_{n} x^{n +r_{2}} \left (n +r_{2}\right )^{2}}{x^{2}}-\frac {b_{n} x^{n +r_{2}} \left (n +r_{2}\right )}{x^{2}}\right )\right )-x \left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}\frac {b_{n} x^{n +r_{2}} \left (n +r_{2}\right )}{x}\right )+\left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}b_{n} x^{n +r_{2}}\right ) = 0 \end{equation}

Substituting \(y_{1} = \moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}a_{n} x^{n +r_{1}}\) into the above gives

\begin{equation} \tag{9} \frac {\left (2 x \left (x -1\right ) \left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}x^{-1+n +r_{1}} a_{n} \left (n +r_{1}\right )\right )+\left (1-2 x \right ) \left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}a_{n} x^{n +r_{1}}\right )\right ) C}{x}+\frac {x^{2} \left (x -1\right ) \left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}x^{-2+n +r_{2}} b_{n} \left (n +r_{2}\right ) \left (-1+n +r_{2}\right )\right )-\left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}x^{-1+n +r_{2}} b_{n} \left (n +r_{2}\right )\right ) x^{2}+\left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}b_{n} x^{n +r_{2}}\right ) x}{x} = 0 \end{equation}

Since \(r_{1} = 1\) and \(r_{2} = 0\) then the above becomes

\begin{equation} \tag{10} \frac {\left (2 x \left (x -1\right ) \left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}x^{n} a_{n} \left (n +1\right )\right )+\left (1-2 x \right ) \left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}a_{n} x^{n +1}\right )\right ) C}{x}+\frac {x^{2} \left (x -1\right ) \left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}x^{-2+n} b_{n} n \left (n -1\right )\right )-\left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}x^{n -1} b_{n} n \right ) x^{2}+\left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}b_{n} x^{n}\right ) x}{x} = 0 \end{equation}

Which simplifies to

\begin{equation} \tag{2A} \left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}2 C \,x^{n +1} a_{n} \left (n +1\right )\right )+\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}\left (-2 x^{n} a_{n} \left (n +1\right ) C \right )+\left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}a_{n} x^{n} C \right )+\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}\left (-2 C \,x^{n +1} a_{n}\right )+\left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}x^{n} b_{n} n \left (n -1\right )\right )+\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}\left (-n \,x^{n -1} b_{n} \left (n -1\right )\right )+\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}\left (-x^{n} b_{n} n \right )+\left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}b_{n} x^{n}\right ) = 0 \end{equation}

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

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

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

For \(n=0\) in Eq. (2B), we choose arbitray value for \(b_{0}\) as \(b_{0} = 1\). For \(n=N\), where \(N=1\) which is the difference between the two roots, we are free to choose \(b_{1} = 0\). Hence for \(n=1\), Eq (2B) gives

\[ -C +1 = 0 \]

Which is solved for \(C\). Solving for \(C\) gives

\[ C=1 \]

For \(n=2\), Eq (2B) gives

\[ -3 C a_{1}-2 b_{2} = 0 \]

Which when replacing the above values found already for \(b_{n}\) and the values found earlier for \(a_{n}\) and for \(C\), gives

\[ -2 b_{2} = 0 \]

Solving the above for \(b_{2}\) gives

\[ b_{2}=0 \]

For \(n=3\), Eq (2B) gives

\[ \left (2 a_{1}-5 a_{2}\right ) C +b_{2}-6 b_{3} = 0 \]

Which when replacing the above values found already for \(b_{n}\) and the values found earlier for \(a_{n}\) and for \(C\), gives

\[ -6 b_{3} = 0 \]

Solving the above for \(b_{3}\) gives

\[ b_{3}=0 \]

For \(n=4\), Eq (2B) gives

\[ \left (4 a_{2}-7 a_{3}\right ) C +4 b_{3}-12 b_{4} = 0 \]

Which when replacing the above values found already for \(b_{n}\) and the values found earlier for \(a_{n}\) and for \(C\), gives

\[ -12 b_{4} = 0 \]

Solving the above for \(b_{4}\) gives

\[ b_{4}=0 \]

For \(n=5\), Eq (2B) gives

\[ \left (6 a_{3}-9 a_{4}\right ) C +9 b_{4}-20 b_{5} = 0 \]

Which when replacing the above values found already for \(b_{n}\) and the values found earlier for \(a_{n}\) and for \(C\), gives

\[ -20 b_{5} = 0 \]

Solving the above for \(b_{5}\) gives

\[ b_{5}=0 \]

Now that we found all \(b_{n}\) and \(C\), we can calculate the second solution from

\[ y_{2}\left (x \right ) = C y_{1}\left (x \right ) \ln \left (x \right )+\left (\moverset {\infty }{\munderset {n =0}{\sum }}b_{n} x^{n +r_{2}}\right ) \]

Using the above value found for \(C=1\) and all \(b_{n}\), then the second solution becomes

\[ y_{2}\left (x \right )= 1\eslowast \left (x \left (1+O\left (x^{6}\right )\right )\right ) \ln \left (x \right )+1+O\left (x^{6}\right ) \]

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+O\left (x^{6}\right )\right ) + c_2 \left (1\eslowast \left (x \left (1+O\left (x^{6}\right )\right )\right ) \ln \left (x \right )+1+O\left (x^{6}\right )\right ) \\ \end{align*}

Hence the final solution is

\begin{align*} y &= y_h \\ &= c_1 x \left (1+O\left (x^{6}\right )\right )+c_2 \left (x \left (1+O\left (x^{6}\right )\right ) \ln \left (x \right )+1+O\left (x^{6}\right )\right ) \\ \end{align*}
4.51.1 Maple step by step solution

4.51.2 Maple trace
Methods for second order ODEs:
 
4.51.3 Maple dsolve solution

Solving time : 0.015 (sec)
Leaf size : 34

dsolve((x^2-x)*diff(diff(y(x),x),x)-x*diff(y(x),x)+y(x) = 0,y(x), 
       series,x=0)
 
\[ y = \ln \left (x \right ) \left (x +\operatorname {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right ) c_2 +c_1 x \left (1+\operatorname {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right )+\left (1-x +\operatorname {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right ) c_2 \]
4.51.4 Mathematica DSolve solution

Solving time : 0.049 (sec)
Leaf size : 20

AsymptoticDSolveValue[{(x^2-x)*D[y[x],{x,2}]-x*D[y[x],x]+y[x]==0,{}}, 
       y[x],{x,0,5}]
 
\[ y(x)\to c_2 x+c_1 (-3 x+x \log (x)+1) \]