Solving ODE with variable coefficients

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Homework Statement



I wanted to solve a ode which has Brownian motion as a variable coefficient

Homework Equations



2x2y'' + y' -ρy = 0

where x is the Brownian motion with respect to time
ρ is a constant

The Attempt at a Solution



I have tried power series with no solution. Is there a solution to this. IS there any easy way to solve this ODE. Once this ode is tranformed I need to find the roots.
 
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Any hints

I have tried to reduce the order but could not.

Is there any transformation that I can apply. I tried y = xr it did not work

Please guide me...
 
Maple 13 gives a solution involving exponentials, first degree polynomials, and
Bessel functions multiplied together. This is also a special case of equation 17 at this link:
http://eqworld.ipmnet.ru/en/solutions/ode/ode-toc2.htm

Whether or not that will be helpful to you, I don't know.
 
Thanks for the hints.

I saw the solution in maple15 which involves intergal and exponetials.Its little complex.
There is a tranformation required for this equation which I'm not able to get

Also it is not a special case of 17

Now in short
I need to know a transformation when you differentiate you get 1 and if you differentiate it again you get x^2
 
There are two things I don't understand about this problem. First, when finding the nth root of a number, there should in theory be n solutions. However, the formula produces n+1 roots. Here is how. The first root is simply ##\left(r\right)^{\left(\frac{1}{n}\right)}##. Then you multiply this first root by n additional expressions given by the formula, as you go through k=0,1,...n-1. So you end up with n+1 roots, which cannot be correct. Let me illustrate what I mean. For this...

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