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Briot-Bouquet Equation

An Ordinary Differential Equation of the form

\begin{displaymath}
x^my'=f(x,y),
\end{displaymath}

where $m$ is a Positive Integer, $f$ is Analytic at $x=y=0$, $f(0,0)=0$, and $f_y'(0,0)\not=0$.


References

Hazewinkel, M. (Managing Ed.). Encyclopaedia of Mathematics: An Updated and Annotated Translation of the Soviet ``Mathematical Encyclopaedia.'' Dordrecht, Netherlands: Reidel, pp. 481-482, 1988.




© 1996-9 Eric W. Weisstein
1999-05-26