Solutions of Higher Order Constant Coefficient Linear Odes: Homogeneous Case
Solutions of Higher Order Constant Coefficient Linear Odes: Homogeneous Case
Solutions of Higher Order Constant Coefficient Linear Odes: Homogeneous Case
Department of Mathematics
IIT Guwahati
L = P (D) = an (D − r1 ) · · · (D − rn ).
and
∂ k rx
(e P (r))
∂rk
h k(k − 1) (k−2) i
= P (k) (r) + kP (k−1) (r)x + P (r)x2 + · · · + P (r)xk erx
2!
= 0 (for r = r1 and 0 ≤ k ≤ m − 1, as P (r1 ) = · · · = P (m−1) (r1 ) = 0.)
Thus
L xk er1 x = 0 for 0 ≤ k ≤ m − 1,
that is,
xk er1 x
will be a solution of L(y) = 0 for k = 0, 1, . . . , m − 1.
(i)
where cj , i = 1, . . . , k, j = 0, . . . , mi − 1, are arbitrary
constants.