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Liouville ODEs
Description
The general form of the Liouville ODE is given by the following:
Liouville_ode := diff(y(x),x,x)+g(y(x))*diff(y(x),x)^2+f(x)*diff(y(x),x) = 0;
where g and f are arbitrary functions. See Goldstein and Braun, "Advanced Methods for the Solution of Differential Equations".
Examples
The Liouville ODE has the following symmetries (see dsolve,Lie):
These symmetries can be tested using symtest
Knowing two independent symmetries for a second order ODE almost always leads to its answer, as in the following Liouville ODE:
Implicit and explicit answers for ODEs can be tested using odetest.
See Also
DEtools, odeadvisor, dsolve, and ?odeadvisor,<TYPE> where <TYPE> is one of: quadrature, missing, reducible, linear_ODEs, exact_linear, exact_nonlinear, sym_Fx, linear_sym, Bessel, Painleve, Halm, Gegenbauer, Duffing, ellipsoidal, elliptic, erf, Emden, Jacobi, Hermite, Lagerstrom, Laguerre, Liouville, Lienard, Van_der_Pol, Titchmarsh; for other differential orders see odeadvisor,types.
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