54.5.1 problem 1

Internal problem ID [8616]
Book : Elementary differential equations. Rainville, Bedient, Bedient. Prentice Hall. NJ. 8th edition. 1997.
Section : CHAPTER 18. Power series solutions. 18.6. Indicial Equation with Equal Roots. Exercises page 373
Problem number : 1
Date solved : Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 01:21:21 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]

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

Using series method with expansion around

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

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.022 (sec). Leaf size: 54

Order:=8; 
ode:=x^2*diff(diff(y(x),x),x)-x*(1+x)*diff(y(x),x)+y(x) = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(x),type='series',x=0);
 

\[ y = \left (\left (c_2 \ln \left (x \right )+c_1 \right ) \left (1+x +\frac {1}{2} x^{2}+\frac {1}{6} x^{3}+\frac {1}{24} x^{4}+\frac {1}{120} x^{5}+\frac {1}{720} x^{6}+\frac {1}{5040} x^{7}+\operatorname {O}\left (x^{8}\right )\right )+\left (-x -\frac {3}{4} x^{2}-\frac {11}{36} x^{3}-\frac {25}{288} x^{4}-\frac {137}{7200} x^{5}-\frac {49}{14400} x^{6}-\frac {121}{235200} x^{7}+\operatorname {O}\left (x^{8}\right )\right ) c_2 \right ) x \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.01 (sec). Leaf size: 154

ode=x^2*D[y[x],{x,2}]-x*(1+x)*D[y[x],x]+y[x]==0; 
ic={}; 
AsymptoticDSolveValue[{ode,ic},y[x],{x,0,7}]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_1 x \left (\frac {x^7}{5040}+\frac {x^6}{720}+\frac {x^5}{120}+\frac {x^4}{24}+\frac {x^3}{6}+\frac {x^2}{2}+x+1\right )+c_2 \left (x \left (-\frac {121 x^7}{235200}-\frac {49 x^6}{14400}-\frac {137 x^5}{7200}-\frac {25 x^4}{288}-\frac {11 x^3}{36}-\frac {3 x^2}{4}-x\right )+x \left (\frac {x^7}{5040}+\frac {x^6}{720}+\frac {x^5}{120}+\frac {x^4}{24}+\frac {x^3}{6}+\frac {x^2}{2}+x+1\right ) \log (x)\right ) \]

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.801 (sec). Leaf size: 37

from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(x**2*Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)) - x*(x + 1)*Derivative(y(x), x) + y(x),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics,hint="2nd_power_series_regular",x0=0,n=8)
 

\[ y{\left (x \right )} = C_{1} x \left (\frac {x^{6}}{720} + \frac {x^{5}}{120} + \frac {x^{4}}{24} + \frac {x^{3}}{6} + \frac {x^{2}}{2} + x + 1\right ) + O\left (x^{8}\right ) \]