A method for solution of nonlinear ordinary differential equations

Initial value problems, existence, uniqueness, continuous dependence and continuation of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34A12) Nonlinear ordinary differential equations and systems (34A34) Theoretical approximation of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34A45) Fredholm integral equations (45B05) Volterra integral equations (45D05)

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The author proposes a scheme for solving the problem \[ u+2u'/x+\beta ^2u^\nu =0,\;u(0)=0, \quad u'(0)=0. \] After rather cumbersome manipulations he obtains the integral equation \[ u(x)=1+\lambda ^{-1}\int_{0}^{x}\Biggl[(c\lambda +\xi)\psi [a](\xi)-\varepsilon ^{-\mu }(c\xi)^{-1}\int_{0}^{\xi }\zeta ^2a(\zeta) d\zeta \Biggr]d\xi \] with \(a=-\varepsilon ^{\mu }\beta ^2u^{\nu-1 },\;\mu =1/(2-\nu),\;c,\lambda \) are parameters, and \(\psi[a](\xi)\) is a linear Volterra operator with complicated kernel. The author finds a ``natural Volterra equation \(u(x)=1-\int_{0}^{x}s^{-2}\int_{0}^{s}\beta ^2\xi ^2u^\nu (\xi) d\xi ds\) to be inefficient for applications since its kernel contains the singularity \(s^{-2}\). But the same singularity appears in \(\psi\) for the presence of the term \((\varepsilon ^\mu cx^2)^{-1}\int_{0}^{x}\xi ^2a(\xi) d\xi \). So, the advantages of the author's approach are not obvious.

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