Geometry and conservation laws for a class of second-order parabolic equations. I: Geometry

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2020.103824MaRDI QIDQ2201719zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Benjamin B. McMillan

Publication date 17 September 2020

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.00458

zbMATH Keywords

mean curvature flowparabolic symbol PDEsCartan equivalence methodMonge-Ampère equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric theory, characteristics, transformations in context of PDEs (35A30) Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) Quasilinear parabolic equations with mean curvature operator (35K93) Parabolic Monge-Ampère equations (35K96) Exterior differential systems (Cartan theory) (58A15)

Abstract: I consider the geometry of the general class of scalar 2nd-order differential equations with parabolic symbol, including non-linear and non-evolutionary parabolic equations. After defining the appropriate $G$-structure to model parabolic equations, I apply Cartan techniques to determine local geometric invariants (quantities invariant up to a generalized change of variables). One family of invariants gives a geometric characterization for parabolic equation of Monge-Amp`ere type. A second family of invariants determines when a parabolic equation has a local choice of coordinates putting it in evolutionary form. In addition to their intrinsic interest, these results are applied in a follow up paper on the conservation laws of parabolic equations. It is shown there that conservation laws for any evolutionary parabolic equation depend on at most second derivatives of solutions. As a corollary, the only evolutionary parabolic equations with at least one non-trivial conservation law are of Monge-Amp`ere type.

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