2.2.71 Problem 75

Internal problem ID [13277]
Book : Handbook of exact solutions for ordinary differential equations. By Polyanin and Zaitsev. Second edition
Section : Chapter 1, section 1.2. Riccati Equation. 1.2.2. Equations Containing Power Functions
Problem number : 75
Date solved : Wednesday, December 31, 2025 at 12:50:42 PM
CAS classification : [_rational, _Riccati]

2.2.71.1 Solved using first_order_ode_riccati_by_guessing_particular_solution

0.755 (sec)

Entering first order ode riccati guess solver

\begin{align*} \left (x^{n} a +b \,x^{m}+c \right ) y^{\prime }&=c y^{2}-b \,x^{m -1} y+a \,x^{n -2} \\ \end{align*}

This is a Riccati ODE. Comparing the above ODE to solve with the Riccati standard form

\[ y' = f_0(x)+ f_1(x)y+f_2(x)y^{2} \]

Shows that

\begin{align*} f_0(x) & =\frac {a \,x^{n}}{\left (x^{n} a +b \,x^{m}+c \right ) x^{2}}\\ f_1(x) & =-\frac {b \,x^{m}}{\left (x^{n} a +b \,x^{m}+c \right ) x}\\ f_2(x) &=\frac {c}{x^{n} a +b \,x^{m}+c} \end{align*}

Using trial and error, the following particular solution was found

\[ y_p = -\frac {1}{x} \]

Since a particular solution is known, then the general solution is given by

\begin{align*} y &= y_p + \frac { \phi (x) }{ c_1 - \int { \phi (x) f_2 \,dx} } \end{align*}

Where

\begin{align*} \phi (x) &= e^{ \int 2 f_2 y_p + f_1 \,dx } \end{align*}

Evaluating the above gives the general solution as

\[ y = -\frac {1}{x}+\frac {{\mathrm e}^{\int \left (-\frac {2 c}{x \left (x^{n} a +b \,x^{m}+c \right )}-\frac {b \,x^{m}}{\left (x^{n} a +b \,x^{m}+c \right ) x}\right )d x}}{c_1 -\int \frac {{\mathrm e}^{\int \left (-\frac {2 c}{x \left (x^{n} a +b \,x^{m}+c \right )}-\frac {b \,x^{m}}{\left (x^{n} a +b \,x^{m}+c \right ) x}\right )d x} c}{x^{n} a +b \,x^{m}+c}d x} \]

Summary of solutions found

\begin{align*} y &= -\frac {1}{x}+\frac {{\mathrm e}^{\int \left (-\frac {2 c}{x \left (x^{n} a +b \,x^{m}+c \right )}-\frac {b \,x^{m}}{\left (x^{n} a +b \,x^{m}+c \right ) x}\right )d x}}{c_1 -\int \frac {{\mathrm e}^{\int \left (-\frac {2 c}{x \left (x^{n} a +b \,x^{m}+c \right )}-\frac {b \,x^{m}}{\left (x^{n} a +b \,x^{m}+c \right ) x}\right )d x} c}{x^{n} a +b \,x^{m}+c}d x} \\ \end{align*}

2.2.71.2 ✗ Maple

ode:=(a*x^n+b*x^m+c)*diff(y(x),x) = c*y(x)^2-b*x^(m-1)*y(x)+a*x^(-2+n); 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 

\[ \text {No solution found} \]

Maple trace

Methods for first order ODEs: 
--- Trying classification methods --- 
trying a quadrature 
trying 1st order linear 
trying Bernoulli 
trying separable 
trying inverse linear 
trying homogeneous types: 
trying Chini 
differential order: 1; looking for linear symmetries 
trying exact 
Looking for potential symmetries 
trying Riccati 
trying Riccati sub-methods: 
   trying Riccati_symmetries 
   trying Riccati to 2nd Order 
   -> Calling odsolve with the ODE, diff(diff(y(x),x),x) = -(a*x^n*n+b*x^m*m+x^ 
(m-1)*b*x)/x/(a*x^n+b*x^m+c)*diff(y(x),x)-1/(a*x^n+b*x^m+c)^2*c*x^(n-2)*a*y(x), 
y(x) 
      *** Sublevel 2 *** 
      Methods for second order ODEs: 
      --- Trying classification methods --- 
      trying a symmetry of the form [xi=0, eta=F(x)] 
      checking if the LODE is missing y 
      -> Trying an equivalence, under non-integer power transformations, 
         to LODEs admitting Liouvillian solutions. 
      -> Trying a solution in terms of special functions: 
         -> Bessel 
         -> elliptic 
         -> Legendre 
         -> Whittaker 
            -> hyper3: Equivalence to 1F1 under a power @ Moebius 
         -> hypergeometric 
            -> heuristic approach 
            -> hyper3: Equivalence to 2F1, 1F1 or 0F1 under a power @ Moebius 
         -> Mathieu 
            -> Equivalence to the rational form of Mathieu ODE under a power @\ 
 Moebius 
      -> Heun: Equivalence to the GHE or one of its 4 confluent cases under a \ 
power @ Moebius 
      -> Heun: Equivalence to the GHE or one of its 4 confluent cases under a \ 
power @ Moebius 
      -> trying a solution of the form r0(x) * Y + r1(x) * Y where Y = exp(int\ 
(r(x), dx)) * 2F1([a1, a2], [b1], f) 
      -> Trying changes of variables to rationalize or make the ODE simpler 
      <- unable to find a useful change of variables 
         trying a symmetry of the form [xi=0, eta=F(x)] 
         trying 2nd order exact linear 
         trying symmetries linear in x and y(x) 
         trying to convert to a linear ODE with constant coefficients 
         trying 2nd order, integrating factor of the form mu(x,y) 
         trying a symmetry of the form [xi=0, eta=F(x)] 
         checking if the LODE is missing y 
         -> Trying an equivalence, under non-integer power transformations, 
            to LODEs admitting Liouvillian solutions. 
         -> Trying a solution in terms of special functions: 
            -> Bessel 
            -> elliptic 
            -> Legendre 
            -> Whittaker 
               -> hyper3: Equivalence to 1F1 under a power @ Moebius 
            -> hypergeometric 
               -> heuristic approach 
               -> hyper3: Equivalence to 2F1, 1F1 or 0F1 under a power @ Moebi\ 
us 
            -> Mathieu 
               -> Equivalence to the rational form of Mathieu ODE under a powe\ 
r @ Moebius 
         -> Heun: Equivalence to the GHE or one of its 4 confluent cases under \ 
a power @ Moebius 
         -> Heun: Equivalence to the GHE or one of its 4 confluent cases under \ 
a power @ Moebius 
         -> trying a solution of the form r0(x) * Y + r1(x) * Y where Y = exp(\ 
int(r(x), dx)) * 2F1([a1, a2], [b1], f) 
         -> Trying changes of variables to rationalize or make the ODE simpler 
         <- unable to find a useful change of variables 
            trying a symmetry of the form [xi=0, eta=F(x)] 
         trying to convert to an ODE of Bessel type 
   -> Trying a change of variables to reduce to Bernoulli 
   -> Calling odsolve with the ODE, diff(y(x),x)-(1/(a*x^n+b*x^m+c)*c*y(x)^2+y( 
x)-x^(m-1)/(a*x^n+b*x^m+c)*b*y(x)*x+x^2*x^(n-2)/(a*x^n+b*x^m+c)*a)/x, y(x), 
explicit 
      *** Sublevel 2 *** 
      Methods for first order ODEs: 
      --- Trying classification methods --- 
      trying a quadrature 
      trying 1st order linear 
      trying Bernoulli 
      trying separable 
      trying inverse linear 
      trying homogeneous types: 
      trying Chini 
      differential order: 1; looking for linear symmetries 
      trying exact 
      Looking for potential symmetries 
      trying Riccati 
      trying Riccati sub-methods: 
         trying Riccati_symmetries 
      trying inverse_Riccati 
      trying 1st order ODE linearizable_by_differentiation 
   -> trying a symmetry pattern of the form [F(x)*G(y), 0] 
   -> trying a symmetry pattern of the form [0, F(x)*G(y)] 
   -> trying a symmetry pattern of the form [F(x),G(x)*y+H(x)] 
trying inverse_Riccati 
trying 1st order ODE linearizable_by_differentiation 
--- Trying Lie symmetry methods, 1st order --- 
   -> Computing symmetries using: way = 4 
   -> Computing symmetries using: way = 2 
   -> Computing symmetries using: way = 6
 

Maple step by step

\[ \begin {array}{lll} & {} & \textrm {Let's solve}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & \left (a \,x^{13277}+b \,x^{m}+c \right ) \left (\frac {d}{d x}y \left (x \right )\right )=c y \left (x \right )^{2}-b \,x^{m -1} y \left (x \right )+a \,x^{13275} \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Highest derivative means the order of the ODE is}\hspace {3pt} 1 \\ {} & {} & \frac {d}{d x}y \left (x \right ) \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Solve for the highest derivative}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & \frac {d}{d x}y \left (x \right )=\frac {c y \left (x \right )^{2}-b \,x^{m -1} y \left (x \right )+a \,x^{13275}}{a \,x^{13277}+b \,x^{m}+c} \end {array} \]

2.2.71.3 ✗ Mathematica

ode=(a*x^n+b*x^m+c)*D[y[x],x]==c*y[x]^2-b*x^(m-1)*y[x]+a*x^(n-2); 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

Not solved

2.2.71.4 ✗ Sympy

from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
a = symbols("a") 
b = symbols("b") 
c = symbols("c") 
m = symbols("m") 
n = symbols("n") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(-a*x**(n - 2) + b*x**(m - 1)*y(x) - c*y(x)**2 + (a*x**n + b*x**m + c)*Derivative(y(x), x),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 

Timed Out