Geometry of conservation laws for a class of parabolic partial differential equations

DOI10.1007/S000290050005MaRDI QIDQ1360285zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jeanne N. Clelland

Publication date 22 December 1997

Published in Selecta Mathematica. New Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s000290050005

zbMATH Keywords

Cartan's methodexterior differential systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Second-order parabolic equations (35K10) Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) Exterior differential systems (Cartan theory) (58A15)

Review text

The author continues the research initiated by \textit{R. L. Bryant} and \textit{P. A. Griffiths} [Duke Math. J. 78, 531-676 (1995; Zbl 0853.58005)]. Tools of exterior differential systems and Cartan's method of equivalence are applied to the study of conservation laws of second-order nonlinear parabolic partial differential equations on one function of three variables, the main result being that all conservation laws are representable by a closed 3-form on second order jets. Examples collected are of independent interest. E.g., the equation \(u_t = \frac12 e^{-u} (u_{xx} + u_{yy})\) is shown to be intrinsically nonlinear and yet to possess an infinite set of conservations laws, parametrized by solutions \(A\) of the Laplace equation \(A_{xx} + A_{yy} = 0\). This contrasts with the result of Bryant and Griffiths that parabolic equations in the plane with at least four independent conservation laws are necessarily linearizable. Alternatively, one could compute the conservation laws from the earlier \textit{A. M. Vinogradov}'s theory [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 100, 41-129 (1984; Zbl 0548.58015)].

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