2.103   ODE No. 103

\[ -x^3-\left (2 x^2+1\right ) y(x)+x y'(x)+x y(x)^2=0 \] Mathematica : cpu = 0.160966 (sec), leaf count = 90


\[\left \{\left \{y(x)\to \frac {x \left (e^{\sqrt {2} x^2}+\sqrt {2} e^{\sqrt {2} x^2}+e^{2 \sqrt {2} c_1}-\sqrt {2} e^{2 \sqrt {2} c_1}\right )}{e^{\sqrt {2} x^2}+e^{2 \sqrt {2} c_1}}\right \}\right \}\] Maple : cpu = 0.034 (sec), leaf count = 29


\[y \relax (x ) = \frac {x \left (\sqrt {2}+2 \tanh \left (\frac {\left (x^{2}+2 c_{1}\right ) \sqrt {2}}{2}\right )\right ) \sqrt {2}}{2}\]

Hand solution

\begin {equation} xy^{\prime }-xy^{2}-\left (2x^{2}+1\right ) y-x^{3}=0\nonumber \end {equation} This is Riccati non-linear first order. Converting it to standard form\begin {align} y^{\prime } & =x^{2}+\frac {\left (2x^{2}+1\right ) }{x}y+y^{2}\tag {1}\\ & =f_{0}+f_{1}y+f_{2}y^{2}\nonumber \end {align}

Using standard transformation \(y=-\frac {u^{\prime }}{uf_{2}}=-\frac {u^{\prime }}{u}\), therefore\[ y^{\prime }=-\frac {u^{\prime \prime }}{u}+\frac {\left (u^{\prime }\right ) ^{2}}{u^{2}}\] Equating the above to RHS of (1) gives\begin {align} -\frac {u^{\prime \prime }}{u}+\frac {\left (u^{\prime }\right ) ^{2}}{u^{2}} & =x^{2}-\frac {\left (2x^{2}+1\right ) }{x}\frac {u^{\prime }}{u}+\left ( -\frac {u^{\prime }}{u}\right ) ^{2}\nonumber \\ -\frac {u^{\prime \prime }}{u} & =x^{2}-\frac {\left (2x^{2}+1\right ) }{x}\frac {u^{\prime }}{u}\nonumber \\ -u^{\prime \prime } & =ux^{2}-\frac {\left (2x^{2}+1\right ) }{x}u^{\prime }\nonumber \\ -u^{\prime \prime }+\frac {\left (2x^{2}+1\right ) }{x}u^{\prime }-ux^{2} & =0\nonumber \\ xu^{\prime \prime }-\left (2x^{2}+1\right ) u^{\prime }+ux^{3} & =0\tag {2} \end {align}

This is second order linear ODE (Sturm-Liouville). Using the transformation \(t=\frac {x^{2}}{2}\), then \(\frac {dt}{dx}=x\) and \[ \frac {du}{dx}=\frac {du}{dt}\frac {dt}{dx}=x\frac {du}{dt}=\sqrt {2t}\frac {du}{dt}\] And\begin {align*} \frac {d^{2}u}{dx^{2}} & =\frac {d}{dx}\left (\frac {du}{dx}\right ) \\ & =\frac {d}{dx}\left (x\frac {du}{dt}\right ) \\ & =\frac {du}{dt}+x\frac {d^{2}u}{dt^{2}}\frac {dt}{dx}\\ & =\frac {du}{dt}+x\frac {d^{2}u}{dt^{2}}x\\ & =\frac {du}{dt}+x^{2}\frac {d^{2}u}{dt^{2}}\\ & =\frac {du}{dt}+2t\frac {d^{2}u}{dt^{2}} \end {align*}

Hence (2) can be written as\begin {align*} \sqrt {2t}\left (\frac {du}{dt}+2t\frac {d^{2}u}{dt^{2}}\right ) -\left ( 2\left (2t\right ) +1\right ) \sqrt {2t}\frac {du}{dt}+u\left (2t\right ) ^{\frac {3}{2}} & =0\\ \sqrt {2t}\frac {du}{dt}+\sqrt {2t}2t\frac {d^{2}u}{dt^{2}}-\left (4t+1\right ) \sqrt {2t}\frac {du}{dt}+u\left (\sqrt {2t}\right ) ^{3} & =0\\ \frac {du}{dt}+2t\frac {d^{2}u}{dt^{2}}-\left (4t+1\right ) \frac {du}{dt}+2tu & =0\\ \frac {du}{dt}+2t\frac {d^{2}u}{dt^{2}}-4t\frac {du}{dt}-\frac {du}{dt}+2tu & =0\\ 2t\frac {d^{2}u}{dt^{2}}-4t\frac {du}{dt}+2tu & =0\\ 2t\left (\frac {d^{2}u}{dt^{2}}-2\frac {du}{dt}+u\right ) & =0 \end {align*}

Hence\[ \frac {d^{2}u}{dt^{2}}-2\frac {du}{dt}+u=0 \] This is linear second order with constant coefficients. The indicial equation is \(\lambda ^{2}-2\lambda +1=0\) with roots \(\lambda =\frac {-b\pm \sqrt {b^{2}-4ac}}{2a}=\frac {2\pm \sqrt {4-4}}{2}=1\) double root. Hence\[ u\relax (t) =Ae^{t}+tBe^{t}\]

Since \(t=\frac {x^{2}}{2}\) then\[ u\relax (x) =Ae^{\frac {x^{2}}{2}}+\frac {x^{2}}{2}Be^{\frac {x^{2}}{2}}\] But \(y=-\frac {u^{\prime }}{u}\) therefore\begin {align*} u^{\prime } & =Axe^{\frac {x^{2}}{2}}+\left (xBe^{\frac {x^{2}}{2}}+\frac {x^{2}}{2}xBe^{\frac {x^{2}}{2}}\right ) \\ & =Axe^{\frac {x^{2}}{2}}+xBe^{\frac {x^{2}}{2}}+\frac {x^{3}}{2}Be^{\frac {x^{2}}{2}} \end {align*}

Hence\[ y=-\frac {Axe^{\frac {x^{2}}{2}}+xBe^{\frac {x^{2}}{2}}+\frac {x^{3}}{2}Be^{\frac {x^{2}}{2}}}{Ae^{\frac {x^{2}}{2}}+\frac {x^{2}}{2}Be^{\frac {x^{2}}{2}}}=-\frac {Axe^{\frac {x^{2}}{2}}+B\left (xe^{\frac {x^{2}}{2}}+\frac {x^{3}}{2}e^{\frac {x^{2}}{2}}\right ) }{Ae^{\frac {x^{2}}{2}}+\frac {x^{2}}{2}Be^{\frac {x^{2}}{2}}}\] Let \(C=\frac {A}{B}\)\begin {align*} y & =-\frac {xe^{\frac {x^{2}}{2}}\left (C+1+\frac {x^{2}}{2}\right ) }{e^{\frac {x^{2}}{2}}\left (C+\frac {x^{2}}{2}\right ) }\\ & =-\frac {x\left (C+1+\frac {x^{2}}{2}\right ) }{C+\frac {x^{2}}{2}}\\ & =-\frac {x\left (2C+2+x^{2}\right ) }{2C+x^{2}}\\ & =-\frac {x\left (C_{1}+2+x^{2}\right ) }{C_{1}+x^{2}} \end {align*}

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