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Now,plugequations(6)and(8)intotheoriginalequation()toobtain

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so
(14)
(15)
andbyinduction,
(16)
for

,3,....

Since(14)and(15)arespecialcasesof(16),thegeneralrecurrencerelationcanbewritten
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for

,1,....Fromthis,weobtainfortheevencoefficients
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andfortheoddcoefficients
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Theevencoefficients

canbegiveninclosedformas

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andtheoddcoefficients

as

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Thegeneralsolutionisthengivenbysummingoverallindices,

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whichcanbedoneinclosedformas
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Performingachangeofvariablesgivestheequivalentformofthesolution
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where
isaChebyshevpolynomialofthefirstkindand
Anotherequivalentformofthesolutionisgivenby

isaChebyshevpolynomialofthesecondkind.

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SEEALSO:

ChebyshevPolynomialoftheFirstKind,ChebyshevPolynomialoftheSecondKind
REFERENCES:
Arfken,G.MathematicalMethodsforPhysicists,3rded.Orlando,FL:AcademicPress,p.735,1985.
Boyce,W.E.andDiPrima,R.C.ElementaryDifferentialEquationsandBoundaryValueProblems,4thed.NewYork:Wiley,
pp.232and252,1986.
Zwillinger,D.HandbookofDifferentialEquations,3rded.Boston,MA:AcademicPress,p.127,1997.

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