Set . Wherever , the chain rule and the given implicit differential equation give
Thus and . Squaring without losing the square-root sign restriction gives
with either sign of on its interval of definition. These parabolas satisfy . Their vertex is a regular point as a parametrized curve but cannot belong to a differentiable graph satisfying the equation: there while . The degenerate case gives the separate solution in the differential-form interpretation printed in the paper. It would be lost by dividing the equation by .
Figure 1.
Singular initial-point branches and the parabolic integral curves, with their graph-domain restrictions
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Where and , the separable differential equation gives
The requested point selects the implicit solution . The two real branches approaching that point are
There is an important initial value problem qualification: the differential equation as printed has no classical solution through the specified initial point. Its right side is undefined at , and these branches have an infinite one-sided derivative as . They satisfy the differential equation on and extend continuously to the requested point. Multiplying by the vanishing denominator produces an implicit differential equation with a larger domain; it does not repair the original initial value problem.