We can try to construct a series solution

Substituting these in the differential equation

Making a shift on the first sum

If this series is a solution, then all these coefficients must be zero, so:

We can rearrange this to get a recurrence relation for Ak+2.

Now, we have

We can determine A0 and A1 if there are initial conditions, i.e. if we have an initial value problem. So we have

and the series solution is

which we can break up into the sum of two linearly independent series solutions:

which can be further simplified by the use of hypergeometric series.