Resonantly Forced ODEs and Repeated Roots

Abstract

SIAM Review, Volume 66, Issue 1, Page 149-160, February 2024.
In a recent article in this journal, Gouveia and Stone [``Generating Resonant and Repeated Root Solutions to Ordinary Differential Equations Using Perturbation Methods,” SIAM Rev., 64 (2022), pp. 485--499] described a method for finding exact solutions to resonantly forced linear ordinary differential equations, and for finding the general solution of repeated root linear systems. It is shown here that applying their mathematical justification directly yields a method that is faster and algebraically simpler than the method they described. This method seems to be unknown in the undergraduate textbook literature, although it certainly should be present there as it is elegant and simple to apply, generally giving solutions with much less work than variation of parameters.