simplifying first-order diff eq solution
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- Subject: [mg46065] simplifying first-order diff eq solution
- From: "J.S." <childrenoflessergod at yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 02:29:35 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Simon Fraser University
- Reply-to: fugue[at]sfu[dot]ca at sfu.ca
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi, I want to solve a first-order simple non-linear differential
equation. Incidentally, I even know the solution. Now try to solve this
using Mathematica:
DSolve[{G'[t] == -( s + t) G[t] + 1 + G[t]^2, G[0] == 0}, G[t], t]
You will get a horrible series of Erfi[], while the answer is simply
s+t - s Exp[t^2 + st]/(1+s Int_{0}^{t} {dt' Exp[t'^2 / 2 + s t']})
I am sure Mathematica is intelligent enough to reduce the results to
this simple form, but how do I do it? For example, why does Mathematica
try to express the answer in Erfi[] (instead of erf[]), using complex
variables? Can I tell Mathematica that all my variables are real
numbers?
Please help.