Solution

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For this homogeneous tangent differential equation, set on an interval not containing . Since , cancellation gives . Away from zeros of , separation and integration give
Restoring a signed constant yields the compact implicit solution
A complete real branch description is
Here is real and the interval must satisfy and . The strict inequality excludes points with , where the original tangent function is undefined. Separating divided by , so its zeros must be checked separately: gives . These are exactly the branches already included. The branch integer is fixed on each connected solution interval; it cannot be changed arbitrarily at a regular point.

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