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Solutions to the Homogeneous Second-Order Linear Differential Equation and the Wronskian 📂Odinary Differential Equations

Solutions to the Homogeneous Second-Order Linear Differential Equation and the Wronskian

Definition[^1]

$$ ay^{\prime \prime}+ by^\prime +cy=0 $$

Let’s consider the second-order linear homogeneous differential equation given above. Let’s call $W$ the Wronskian. If $W (y_{1}, y_{2}) \ne 0$, then we call $\left\{ y_{1}, y_{2} \right\}$ the fundamental set of solution for the given differential equation.