Almost product structures and Monge-Ampère equations (Q875215)

This paper is devoted to the equivalence problem of classical Monge-Ampère equations. At first, the author investigates tensor differential invariants of almost product structures. Then the obtained technique is applied to elliptic and hyperbolic Monge-Ampère equations. Namely, the author finds sufficient conditions for the contact linearization of these equations. Furthermore he reduces the equivalence problem of generic equations of the considered types to the equivalence problem of the corresponding complete parallelisms.