Link to actual problem [9711] \[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }+\frac {\left (-x^{2} \left (a^{2}-1\right )+2 \left (a +3\right ) b x -b^{2}\right ) y}{4 x^{2}}=0} \]
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 &= \operatorname {WhittakerM}\left (\frac {b \left (a +3\right )}{2 \sqrt {a^{2}-1}}, \frac {\sqrt {b^{2}+1}}{2}, \sqrt {a^{2}-1}\, x \right )\right ] \\ \left [R &= x, S \left (R \right ) &= \frac {y}{\operatorname {WhittakerM}\left (\frac {b \left (a +3\right )}{2 \sqrt {a^{2}-1}}, \frac {\sqrt {b^{2}+1}}{2}, \sqrt {a^{2}-1}\, x \right )}\right ] \\ \end{align*}
\begin{align*} \left [\underline {\hspace {1.25 ex}}\xi &= 0, \underline {\hspace {1.25 ex}}\eta &= \operatorname {WhittakerW}\left (\frac {b \left (a +3\right )}{2 \sqrt {a^{2}-1}}, \frac {\sqrt {b^{2}+1}}{2}, \sqrt {a^{2}-1}\, x \right )\right ] \\ \left [R &= x, S \left (R \right ) &= \frac {y}{\operatorname {WhittakerW}\left (\frac {b \left (a +3\right )}{2 \sqrt {a^{2}-1}}, \frac {\sqrt {b^{2}+1}}{2}, \sqrt {a^{2}-1}\, x \right )}\right ] \\ \end{align*}