A reflecting function of a family of functions (Q5951119): Difference between revisions

The author, pursuing his previous work [Reflecting function and periodic solutions to differential equations. (Russian). Minsk: Izdatel'stvo ``Universitetskoe'' (1986; Zbl 0607.34038)], develops a method that permits to study solutions to differential equations related by a transformation involving a time reflection \(t \to - t\). Such mapping, which could be seen as a ``reversing symmetry'' [see, e.g., \textit{M. B. Sevryuk}, Reversible systems, LNM 1211. Berlin etc.: Springer-Verlag (1986; Zbl 0661.58002)] is not necessarily applicable to all solutions, but could be restricted to a suitable subclass, as in the Levi-Winternitz theory of conditional symmetries [\textit{D. Levi} and \textit{P. Winternitz}, J. Phys. A, Math. Gen. 22, No. 15, 2915-2924 (1989; Zbl 0694.35159) and \textit{G. Cicogna} and \textit{G. Gaeta}, J. Phys. A, Math. Gen. 34, No. 3, 491-512 (2001; Zbl 0969.35010)]. Several special classes of equations and solutions are considered.