Computer-assisted reduction of second order linear differential equations

DOI10.1007/BF02238744MaRDI QIDQ1202240zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pierre Midy

Publication date 25 February 1993

Published in Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02238744

zbMATH Keywords

factorization techniqueshypergeometric or the confluent hypergeometric equationrational change of variablereductionsecond order linear differential equation with polynomial coefficientsspecial functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Explicit solutions, first integrals of ordinary differential equations (34A05) Analytical theory of ordinary differential equations: series, transformations, transforms, operational calculus, etc. (34A25) Transformation and reduction of ordinary differential equations and systems, normal forms (34C20) Symbolic computation and algebraic computation (68W30)

Review text

In order to explore the possibilities of representing its solutions in terms of special functions, and using factorization techniques, a process is defined to decide whether a second order linear differential equation with polynomial coefficients can be brought to the hypergeometric or the confluent hypergeometric equation by a rational change of variable. In the first case, an upper bound has to be provided for the degree of the numerator of the rational function which defines the change of variable.

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• REDUCE

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