Symmetries of trivial systems of ODEs of mixed order

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2013.10.008MaRDI QIDQ2636738zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Boris M. Dubrov, Igor Zelenko

Publication date 31 January 2014

Published in Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.7119

zbMATH Keywords

ordinary differential equationsTanaka prolongationgraded Lie algebrasflag structuressymmetry algebrasSternberg prolongation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graded Lie (super)algebras (17B70) Symmetries, invariants of ordinary differential equations (34C14) Exterior differential systems (Cartan theory) (58A15)

Abstract: We compute symmetry algebras of a system of two equations y^(k)=z^(l)=0, where 2<=k<l. It appears that there are many ways to convert such system of ODEs to an exterior differential system. They lead to different series of finite-dimensional symmetry algebras. For example, for (k,l)=(2,3) we get two non-isomorphic symmetry algebras of the same dimension. We explore how these symmetry algebras are related to both Sternberg prolongation of G-structures and Tanaka prolongation of graded nilpotent Lie algebras. Surprisingly, the case (k,l)=(2,3) provides an example of a linear subalgebra g in gl(5,R) such that the Sternberg prolongations of g and g^t are both of the same dimension, but are non-isomorphic. We also discuss the non-linear case and the link with flag structures on smooth manifolds.

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