The function satisfies the linear equation .
The Wronskian of two independant solutions, and is defined as . Let be given, use the Wronskian to determine a first-order inhomogeneous differential equation for . Hence show that
The only first-order inhomogeneous differential equation I can get for is simply . Which is trivial and simply the definition of , so I don't think this is what it wants. I can easily get to the second result by differentiating and then integrating, but the wording suggests I'm supposed to get to this result from the differential equation that I can't determine.
So I would ask please that someone simply complete the above question, showing the differential equation we are to determine and how to get to the second result from this.
Edit: The question later goes on to give the differential equation call this equation , we have already confirmed that is a solution
Hence, using with and expanding the integrand in powers of to order , find the first three non-zero terms in the power series expansion for a solution, , of that is independent of and satisfies .
I'm stuck here too as I don't see how we could expand as it is surely a function of the unknown . Apologies for my ignorance, this is independant study, and aside from a brief look at some online notes that simply define , I've never worked on these problems before.