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Solving third order linear differential equations in terms of second order equations

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This paper presents a simplified version of a method by Michael Singer for reducing a third order linear ode to a second order linear ode whenever possible. An implementation is available as well.

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      ISSAC '07: Proceedings of the 2007 international symposium on Symbolic and algebraic computation
      July 2007
      406 pages
      ISBN:9781595937438
      DOI:10.1145/1277548
      • General Chair:
      • Dongming Wang

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