Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2016/ia/paper-2/7a/b/solution

For positive integral , the exponent-zero linear recurrence relation fixes for , but at its factor vanishes and leaves free. Choose and . All later coefficients then vanish by the same linear recurrence relation.
A polynomial solution of degree is
For this is the constant solution , in agreement with the ordinary point exception. The terminating Frobenius series arises because the coefficient equation at the resonant index becomes , permitting truncation rather than forcing a logarithm.

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