On Lie's classification of subalgebras of vector fields on the plane

DOI10.1007/S12044-022-00711-5MaRDI QIDQ2106898zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Indranil Biswas, F. M. Mahomed, Said Waqas Shah, Hassan Azad

Publication date 29 November 2022

Published in Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences. Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.01422

zbMATH Keywords

Lie algebra of vector fieldsODEPDErepresentation of Lie algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Solvable, nilpotent (super)algebras (17B30) Lie algebras of vector fields and related (super) algebras (17B66) Complex vector fields, holomorphic foliations, (mathbb{C})-actions (32M25)

Abstract: A brief proof of Lie's classification of solvable algebras of vector fields on the plane is given. The proof uses basic representation theory and PDEs.

Review text

Motivated by [\textit{S. W. Shah} et al., ``Complete classification of scalar fourth-order ordinary differential equations and linearizing algorithms, Dyn. Syst. Appl. 30, No. 3, 519--535 (2021)], where Lie's classification of solvable Lie algebras is used to completely classify equations of fourth order according to their symmetry algebras, this paper gives another proof of the classification of all solvable Lie algebras of vector fields in the plane \(\mathbb{C}^2\) or \(\mathbb{R}^2\), using representation theory and elementary partial differential equations. After some preliminaries in section 3, section 4 classifies nilpotent non-abelian algebras up to locally defined change of variables (c.f. Theorem 4) and sections 5-6 deal with solvable non-nilpotent algebras (c.f. Propositions 5 and 7, Theorem 8 and Corollary 10), distinguishing the rank of the commutator and whether this commutator is or not abelian.

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