Publication:3875394

Publication date: 1978

Hamilton-Jacobi equation; conserved quantities; generalized Helmholtz equation; eikonal approximation; Lie-Bäcklund theory; separable solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35F20: Nonlinear first-order PDEs

81R10: Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations

53C80: Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences

70H20: Hamilton-Jacobi equations in mechanics

49S05: Variational principles of physics

49L99: Hamilton-Jacobi theories