33.7 problem 245

Internal problem ID [11068]
Internal file name [OUTPUT/10325_Wednesday_January_24_2024_10_07_15_PM_54178152/index.tex]

Book: Handbook of exact solutions for ordinary differential equations. By Polyanin and Zaitsev. Second edition
Section: Chapter 2, Second-Order Differential Equations. section 2.1.2-8. Other equations.
Problem number: 245.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

The type(s) of ODE detected by this program : "unknown"

Maple gives the following as the ode type

[[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]

Unable to solve or complete the solution.

\[ \boxed {x^{n} y^{\prime \prime }+\left (2 x^{n -1}+a \,x^{2}+b x \right ) y^{\prime }+b y=0} \]

Maple trace

`Methods for second order ODEs: 
--- Trying classification methods --- 
trying a symmetry of the form [xi=0, eta=F(x)] 
checking if the LODE is missing y 
-> Trying an equivalence, under non-integer power transformations, 
   to LODEs admitting Liouvillian solutions. 
-> Trying a solution in terms of special functions: 
   -> Bessel 
   -> elliptic 
   -> Legendre 
   -> Whittaker 
      -> hyper3: Equivalence to 1F1 under a power @ Moebius 
   -> hypergeometric 
      -> heuristic approach 
      -> hyper3: Equivalence to 2F1, 1F1 or 0F1 under a power @ Moebius 
   -> Mathieu 
      -> Equivalence to the rational form of Mathieu ODE under a power @ Moebius 
-> Heun: Equivalence to the GHE or one of its 4 confluent cases under a power @ Moebius 
-> Heun: Equivalence to the GHE or one of its 4 confluent cases under a power @ Moebius 
-> trying a solution of the form r0(x) * Y + r1(x) * Y where Y = exp(int(r(x), dx)) * 2F1([a1, a2], [b1], f) 
-> Trying changes of variables to rationalize or make the ODE simpler 
<- unable to find a useful change of variables 
   trying a symmetry of the form [xi=0, eta=F(x)] 
   trying differential order: 2; exact nonlinear 
   trying symmetries linear in x and y(x) 
   trying to convert to a linear ODE with constant coefficients 
   trying 2nd order, integrating factor of the form mu(x,y) 
   trying a symmetry of the form [xi=0, eta=F(x)] 
   checking if the LODE is missing y 
   -> Trying an equivalence, under non-integer power transformations, 
      to LODEs admitting Liouvillian solutions. 
   -> Trying a solution in terms of special functions: 
      -> Bessel 
      -> elliptic 
      -> Legendre 
      -> Whittaker 
         -> hyper3: Equivalence to 1F1 under a power @ Moebius 
      -> hypergeometric 
         -> heuristic approach 
         -> hyper3: Equivalence to 2F1, 1F1 or 0F1 under a power @ Moebius 
      -> Mathieu 
         -> Equivalence to the rational form of Mathieu ODE under a power @ Moebius 
   -> Heun: Equivalence to the GHE or one of its 4 confluent cases under a power @ Moebius 
   -> Heun: Equivalence to the GHE or one of its 4 confluent cases under a power @ Moebius 
   -> trying a solution of the form r0(x) * Y + r1(x) * Y where Y = exp(int(r(x), dx)) * 2F1([a1, a2], [b1], f) 
   -> Trying changes of variables to rationalize or make the ODE simpler 
   <- unable to find a useful change of variables 
      trying a symmetry of the form [xi=0, eta=F(x)] 
   trying to convert to an ODE of Bessel type 
   -> trying reduction of order to Riccati 
      trying Riccati sub-methods: 
         trying Riccati_symmetries 
         -> trying a symmetry pattern of the form [F(x)*G(y), 0] 
         -> trying a symmetry pattern of the form [0, F(x)*G(y)] 
         -> trying a symmetry pattern of the form [F(x),G(x)*y+H(x)] 
--- Trying Lie symmetry methods, 2nd order --- 
`, `-> Computing symmetries using: way = 3`[0, y]
 

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.454 (sec). Leaf size: 76

dsolve(x^n*diff(y(x),x$2)+(2*x^(n-1)+a*x^2+b*x)*diff(y(x),x)+b*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = \frac {\left (a x +b \right ) \left (c_{2} \left (\int \frac {{\mathrm e}^{\frac {b \left (n -3\right ) x^{2-n}+\left (n -2\right ) \left (a \,x^{3-n}-2 \left (n -3\right ) \ln \left (x \right )\right )}{\left (n -3\right ) \left (n -2\right )}} x^{2}}{\left (a x +b \right )^{2}}d x \right )+c_{1} \right )}{x} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 0

DSolve[x^n*y''[x]+(2*x^(n-1)+a*x^2+b*x)*y'[x]+b*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

Not solved