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Table 1 The fundamental operations of the DTM

From: An effective numerical method to solve a class of nonlinear singular boundary value problems using improved differential transform method

Original function

Transformed function

\(w(x)=\alpha u(x)\pm \beta v(x)\)

\(W(k)=\alpha U(k)\pm \beta V(k)\)

\(w(x)=u(x)v(x)\)

\(W(k)=\sum _{m=0}^k U(m)V(k-m)\)

\(w(x)=\hbox {d}^m u(x)/\hbox {d}x^m\)

\(W(k)= \frac{(k+m)!}{k!}U(k+m)\)

\(w(x)=x^m\)

\(W(k)= \delta (k-m)=\left\{ \begin{array}{ll} 1, \quad \hbox {if}\; k=m,\\ 0, \quad \hbox {if} \; k\ne m. \end{array} \right.\)

\(w(x)=\exp (x)\)

\(W(k)= 1/k!\)

\(w(x)=\sin (\alpha x+\beta )\)

\(W(k)= \alpha ^k/k! \sin (k \pi /2+\beta )\)

\(w(x)=\cos (\alpha x+\beta )\)

\(W(k)= \alpha ^k/k! \cos (k \pi /2+\beta )\)

  1. Note that \(\alpha , \beta\) are constants and m is a nonnegative integer