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Keywords:
ordinary differential equations; linear differential equations; transformations; functional equations
Summary:
The paper describes the general form of an ordinary differential equation of the order $n+1$ $(n\ge 1)$ which allows a nontrivial global transformation consisting of the change of the independent variable. A result given by J. Aczél is generalized. A functional equation of the form $f\biggl (s, v, w_{11}v_{1}, \ldots , \sum _{j=1}^{n}w_{nj}v_{j}\biggr ) = \sum _{j=1}^{n}w_{n+1 j}v_{j} + w_{n+1 n+1}f(x, v, v_{1}, \ldots , v_{n}),$ where $w_{ij} = a_{ij}(x_{1}, \ldots , x_{i-j+1})$ are given functions, $w_{n+1 1} = g(x, x_{1}, \ldots , x_{n})$, is solved on $\mathbb R.$
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