Invertible mappings of nonlinear PDEs to linear PDEs through admitted conservation laws (Q941647)

The authors present an alternative algorithmic method for mapping a nonlinear system of PDEs invertibly to some linear system of PDEs by usage of admitted conservation laws of the nonlinear system. Any linear system possesses an infinity set of conservation law-multipliers satisfying its adjoint system. This feature of linear systems will be exploited to defect whether or not a given nonlinear system can be linearized by an invertible transformation and, when such a linearization mapping exists, to obtain the explicit form of linearizing transformation from an associated conservation law identity. The obtained results generalize earlier computational work [\textit{F. Wolf}, Partial and complete linearization of PDEs based on conservation laws. Differential equations with symbolic computation. (Basel): Birkhäuser. Trends in Mathematics, 291--306 (2005; Zbl 1157.70312)] in which a fully automatic algorithm is given using the computer algebra program so defect and construct linearizations in the case when the mapping only transforms the dependent variables of the given nonlinear PDE system.