Link to actual problem [9543] \[ \boxed {x^{2} y^{\prime \prime }+\left (-x^{4}+\left (2 a +2 n +1\right ) x^{2}+\left (-1\right )^{n} a -a^{2}\right ) y=0} \]
type detected by program
{"second_order_bessel_ode"}
type detected by Maple
[[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]
Maple symgen result This shows Maple’s found \(\xi ,\eta \) and the corresponding canonical coordinates \(R,S\)\begin{align*} \\ \\ \end{align*}
\begin{align*} \left [\underline {\hspace {1.25 ex}}\xi &= 0, \underline {\hspace {1.25 ex}}\eta &= \frac {\operatorname {WhittakerM}\left (\frac {a}{2}+\frac {n}{2}+\frac {1}{4}, \frac {\sqrt {1-4 a \left (\left (-1\right )^{n}-a \right )}}{4}, x^{2}\right )}{\sqrt {x}}\right ] \\ \left [R &= x, S \left (R \right ) &= \frac {\sqrt {x}\, y}{\operatorname {WhittakerM}\left (\frac {a}{2}+\frac {n}{2}+\frac {1}{4}, \frac {\sqrt {1-4 a \left (-1\right )^{n}+4 a^{2}}}{4}, x^{2}\right )}\right ] \\ \end{align*}
\begin{align*} \left [\underline {\hspace {1.25 ex}}\xi &= 0, \underline {\hspace {1.25 ex}}\eta &= \frac {\operatorname {WhittakerW}\left (\frac {a}{2}+\frac {n}{2}+\frac {1}{4}, \frac {\sqrt {1-4 a \left (\left (-1\right )^{n}-a \right )}}{4}, x^{2}\right )}{\sqrt {x}}\right ] \\ \left [R &= x, S \left (R \right ) &= \frac {\sqrt {x}\, y}{\operatorname {WhittakerW}\left (\frac {a}{2}+\frac {n}{2}+\frac {1}{4}, \frac {\sqrt {1-4 a \left (-1\right )^{n}+4 a^{2}}}{4}, x^{2}\right )}\right ] \\ \end{align*}