Symmetry classification using noncommutative invariant differential operators (Q2431803)

This paper is devoted to the problem of point symmetry classification of differential equations. Authors show how to perform this classification for a class of PDEs in a \({\mathcal G}\)-invariant way, where \({\mathcal G}\) is a known Lie pseudogroup of point transformations preserving the class of PDEs. Their approach is based on some differential elimination procedure that completes the system of PDEs defining classical symmetries by adjoining compatibility conditions. Each step of the procedure is invariant w.r.t. \({\mathcal G}\). The approach is applied to a class of nonlinear diffusion convection equations \(v_x=u\), \(v_t=B(u)u_x-K(u)\), which is invariant w.r.t. some equivalence pseudogroup \({\mathcal G}\). In this example the complexity of the calculations is much reduced by the use of a \({\mathcal G}\)-invariant differential operator.