CONTACT GEOMETRY AND NON-LINEAR SECOND-ORDER DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

DOI10.1070/RM1979v034n01ABEH002873zbMath0427.58002WikidataQ115325302 ScholiaQ115325302MaRDI QIDQ3862760

Publication date: 1979

Published in: Russian Mathematical Surveys (Search for Journal in Brave)

Klein-Gordon equation; Monge-Ampere equation; contact geometry of the manifold of 1-jets; non-linear second-order differential equations defined on a smooth manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

58A10: Differential forms in global analysis

53C15: General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.)

35A99: General topics in partial differential equations

58Jxx: Partial differential equations on manifolds; differential operators

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