Subgroups of Lie groups and separation of variables

DOI10.1063/1.524896zbMath0476.58021OpenAlexW1988084059WikidataQ115332615 ScholiaQ115332615MaRDI QIDQ3933667

Willard jun. Miller, Pavel Winternitz, Jirí Patera

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.524896

zbMATH Keywords

commuting symmetry operatorsseparable systems of coordinates for the Helmholtz equation in pseudo- Riemannian spacessymmetry group of an operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of PDEs on manifolds (58J90) Invariance and symmetry properties for PDEs on manifolds (58J70) Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Q99) Differential complexes (58J10)

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