Power series solutions to differential equations

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Homework Statement



I'm revising at the moment and a bit stumped on question 4 http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/system/files/attachments/AC104.pdf

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I think for the first part of the question, the regular singular points are 0 and -2.

However, I am unsure as to how to tackle the next part. I have assumed it is ok to differentiate the power series term by term and have done so and subbed it back into the original equation, now I feel like I need to equate coefficients, but I feel like I have no idea what I'm doing. If you could point me in the right direction I'd be really grateful :).
 
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This is the method of Frobenius, there are examples everywhere on the net.
 
Thanks :) I get it now.
 
Prove $$\int\limits_0^{\sqrt2/4}\frac{1}{\sqrt{x-x^2}}\arcsin\sqrt{\frac{(x-1)\left(x-1+x\sqrt{9-16x}\right)}{1-2x}} \, \mathrm dx = \frac{\pi^2}{8}.$$ Let $$I = \int\limits_0^{\sqrt 2 / 4}\frac{1}{\sqrt{x-x^2}}\arcsin\sqrt{\frac{(x-1)\left(x-1+x\sqrt{9-16x}\right)}{1-2x}} \, \mathrm dx. \tag{1}$$ The representation integral of ##\arcsin## is $$\arcsin u = \int\limits_{0}^{1} \frac{\mathrm dt}{\sqrt{1-t^2}}, \qquad 0 \leqslant u \leqslant 1.$$ Plugging identity above into ##(1)## with ##u...
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