87.25.17 problem 17

Internal problem ID [23820]
Book : Ordinary differential equations with modern applications. Ladas, G. E. and Finizio, N. Wadsworth Publishing. California. 1978. ISBN 0-534-00552-7. QA372.F56
Section : Chapter 5. Series solutions of second order linear equations. Exercise at page 232
Problem number : 17
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 09:45:30 PM
CAS classification : [_Gegenbauer]

\begin{align*} \left (-x^{2}+1\right ) y^{\prime \prime }-2 x y^{\prime }+6 y&=0 \end{align*}

Using series method with expansion around

\begin{align*} 0 \end{align*}

With initial conditions

\begin{align*} y \left (0\right )&=0 \\ y^{\prime }\left (0\right )&=1 \\ \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 14

Order:=6; 
ode:=(-x^2+1)*diff(diff(y(x),x),x)-2*x*diff(y(x),x)+6*y(x) = 0; 
ic:=[y(0) = 0, D(y)(0) = 1]; 
dsolve([ode,op(ic)],y(x),type='series',x=0);
 

\[ y = x -\frac {2}{3} x^{3}-\frac {1}{5} x^{5}+\operatorname {O}\left (x^{6}\right ) \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 19

ode=(1-x^2)*D[y[x],{x,2}]-2*x*D[y[x],x]+6*y[x]==0; 
ic={y[0]==0,Derivative[1][y][0] ==1}; 
AsymptoticDSolveValue[{ode,ic},y[x],{x,0,5}]
 

\[ y(x)\to -\frac {x^5}{5}-\frac {2 x^3}{3}+x \]

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.268 (sec). Leaf size: 26

from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(-2*x*Derivative(y(x), x) + (1 - x**2)*Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)) + 6*y(x),0) 
ics = {y(0): 0, Subs(Derivative(y(x), x), x, 0): 1} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics,hint="2nd_power_series_ordinary",x0=0,n=6)
 

\[ y{\left (x \right )} = C_{2} \left (1 - 3 x^{2}\right ) + C_{1} x \left (1 - \frac {2 x^{2}}{3}\right ) + O\left (x^{6}\right ) \]