Ok here's a funny ODE to solve:
clearly a straight forward power series substitution won't work here since we have a regular singularity at x = 0
so try the frobenius method by expanding around x = 0.
Assumeis a solution where
is some constant.
So we haveand
Put this back in:
after some algebra and stuff:
clearly lowest term iswith it's coefficient as
hence
Now, so
Now we find the coefficients of the termwhere s is some constant, this gives:
rearranging gives:
for s = 1, 2, etc
Thus we found a recurrence relationship withand
as arbitrary initial values.
A bit of playing around quickly shows that:
Thus we have one of the solutions to be
However because a_0 and a_1 are arbitrary, let us pick...., now magically we have:
Sois one of the basis for the general solution of this ode.
Now I was wondering, sinceand
are arbitrary, then would ANY
(
) and
work? Say
and
which then implies that there is an "infinite" number of different basis for the general solution of this ode?
Thanks
