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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 ia Paper 2 7A c Solution by
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Here the indicial equation has the repeated root . The first Frobenius method solution is . Since , the Abel identity gives . Reduction of order with produceswhere the additive constant is absorbed into . In particular the logarithmic coefficient is nonzero: an additional independent real analytic solution does not exist.
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