Symmetry analysis of a class of autonomous even-order ordinary differential equations (Q2802152)

This paper is devoted to the differential equation NEWLINE\[NEWLINEy^{(2n)}+f(y)=0NEWLINE\]NEWLINE with \(n\) a positive integer, from the point of view of Lie group analysis. Here \(y=y(x)\) is the dependent variable and \(f\) is a smooth function. A main result is that for the power \(p=\frac{1+2n}{1-2n}\) all Lie point symmetries of the given equation with \(f(y)=\lambda y^p\), \(\lambda \neq 0\), are in fact Noether symmetries. Also, the first integrals are studied.