General solutions to the 2D Liouville equation (Q1388232): Difference between revisions

This paper presents the most general exact solutions of the quasilinear partial differential equations \[ (1)\quad \psi_{xx}+ \psi_{yy}=\widetilde c e^{d\psi}\quad\text{and} \quad(2)\quad \psi_{xx}- \psi_{yy}=\widetilde c e^{d\psi}; \] where \(\widetilde c\) and \(d\) are real non-zero constants. This paper serves as a unification of many disparate results spread throughout the literature, and also provides many previously unknown exact solutions. The methods employed here are essentially elementary yet the solutions obtained are shown to be the most general. It is indicated how to retrieve currently known solutions as special cases of these most general solutions. The general solution to (1) is shown to depend on two arbitrary analytic functions and some constants while the general solution to (2) depends on four arbitrary real functions and some constants.