APPLICATION OF THE GENERALISED SUNDMAN TRANSFORMATION TO THE LINEARISATION OF TWO SECOND-ORDER ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

摘要

In the literature, the generalized Sundman transformation has been used for obtaining necessary and sufficient conditions for a single second- and third-order ordinary differential equation to be equivalent to a linear equation in the Laguerre form. As far as we are aware, the generalized Sundman transformation has not been applied to a system of equations. The motivation of this work is then to expand the application of the generalized Sundman transformation to a system of ordinary differential equations, in particular, to a system of two second-order ordinary differential equations.