Question: dsolve in Maple 9.5 doesn't return answer of ODE when it should ????

I have the following nonlinear ODE symmetric in the functions A(r) < - > B(r):

 

eq:= diff(A(r),r)^2/A(r)^2 + diff(A(r),r)*diff(B(r),r)/A(r)/B(r) + diff(B(r),r)^2/B(r)=k;

 

The task is to solve for A(r) in terms of B(r) and it goes like this: solve the quadratic equation for A'/A in terms of B'/B (or vise versa cause equation is symmetric) and then integrate.

dsolve(eq, A(r));  produces the required solution for A(r) in terms of integral over B and B'.

dsolve(eq, B(r)); returns nothing.

That must be a bug cause the equation is symmetric and solution for A in terms of B must have exactly the same functional form as solution for B in terms of A and is as easy to find. I use Maple 9.5.

Is that really a bug, is it fixed in new versions?

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