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

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2020.103824zbMATH Open1448.35015arXiv1810.00458OpenAlexW2893623461MaRDI QIDQ2201719FDOQ2201719

Benjamin B. McMillan

Publication date: 17 September 2020

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

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.

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

zbMATH Keywords

[https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/w/index.php?title=+Special%3ASearch&search=Monge-Amp%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BDre+equations&go=Go Monge-Amp��re equations]mean curvature flowparabolic symbol PDEsCartan equivalence method

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)

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• Geometry and conservation laws for a class of second-order parabolic equations. II: Conservation laws
• Conservation laws for second-order parabolic partial differential equations

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