Nonclassical contact symmetries and Charpit's method of compatibility

DOI10.2991/JNMP.2005.12.3.1MaRDI QIDQ5696405zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. J. Arrigo

Publication date 18 October 2005

Published in Journal of Nonlinear Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2991/jnmp.2005.12.3.1

zbMATH Keywords

compatible equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric theory, characteristics, transformations in context of PDEs (35A30) First-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations (35L60) Invariance and symmetry properties for PDEs on manifolds (58J70)

Review text

It is shown that Charpit's method for compatible equation constructions to first order partial differential equations is equivalent to calculations of their nonclassical contact symmetries. Several examples are given illustrating this equivalence.

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