Cartan's structure of symmetry pseudo-group and coverings for the \(r\)-th modified dispersionless Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation (Q966473)

Many useful methods for PDE's can be successfully described in the framework of the theory of coverings [\textit{I. S. Krasil'shchik} and \textit{A. M. Vinogradov}, Acta Appl. Math. 2, 79--96 (1984; Zbl 0547.58043)]. The aim of this paper is to present a systematic approach to the method of determining coverings of PDE's from invariant linear combinations of Maurer-Cartan forms of their contact symmetry pseudo-groups, even for PDE's with more than two independent variables, when the symmetry pseudo-group is infinite dimensional. The approach is based on contact integrable extensions, so the authors propose a generalization of the definition of an integrable extension of an exterior differential system [\textit{R. L. Bryant} and \textit{P. A. Griffiths}, Duke Math. J. 78, No.~3, 531--676 (1995; Zbl 0853.58005)] to the case of more than two independent variables. ``The theory of integrable extensions is then applied to the symmetry pseudo-groups of the \(r\)-th mdKP equation, the \(r\)-th dDym equation, and the deformed Boyer-Finley equation. This gives another look at deriving known coverings and leads to new coverings for these equations.''