On group classification of normal systems of linear second-order ordinary differential equations (Q907663)

This paper considers the classification of point symmetries of systems of ordinary differential equations of the type \[ {\mathbf y}''(x)=B(x){\mathbf y}'+C(x){\mathbf y}+{\mathbf f}(x), \] where \(B(x)\) and \(C(x)\) are certain matrices and \({\mathbf f}(x)\) is a vector. As shown in the Section 3, it is enough to restrict the focus to systems of the form \({\mathbf y}''=C(x){\mathbf y}\). The main results are presented in Sections 4 and 5 and a discussion on certain systems admitting a specific generator is given in Section 6.