Contact geometry of multidimensional Monge-Ampère equations: characteristics, intermediate integrals and solutions

DOI10.5802/AIF.2686zbMATH Open1253.53075arXiv1003.5177OpenAlexW1668002422MaRDI QIDQ441304FDOQ441304

Authors: Gianni Manno, Fabrizio Pugliese, Dmitri Alekseevsky, Ricardo Alonso-Blanco 

Publication date: 22 August 2012

Published in: Annales de l’institut Fourier (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the geometry of multidimensional scalar $2^{nd}$ order PDEs (i.e. PDEs with $n$ independent variables) with one unknown function, viewed as hypersurfaces $mathcalE$ in the Lagrangian Grassmann bundle $M^{(1)}$ over a $(2n+1)$-dimensional contact manifold $(M,mathcalC)$. We develop the theory of characteristics of the equation $mathcalE$ in terms of contact geometry and of the geometry of Lagrangian Grassmannian and study their relationship with intermediate integrals of $mathcalE$. After specifying the results to general Monge-Amp`ere equations (MAEs), we focus our attention to MAEs of type introduced by Goursat, i.e. MAEs of the form ${\displaystyle }$ det|frac{partial^2 f}{partial x^ipartial x^j}-b_{ij}(x,f, abla f)|=0. ${\displaystyle }$ We show that any MAE of the aforementioned class is associated with an $n$-dimensional subdistribution $mathcalD$ of the contact distribution $mathcalC$, and viceversa. We characterize this Goursat-type equations together with its intermediate integrals in terms of their characteristics and give a criterion of local contact equivalence. Finally, we develop a method of solutions of a Cauchy problem, provided the existence of a suitable number of intermediate integrals.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.5177

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zbMATH Keywords

characteristicscontact geometryhypersurfaces of Lagrangian Grassmanniansintermediate integralssubdistribution of a contact distributionMonge-Ampère equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric theory, characteristics, transformations in context of PDEs (35A30) Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Pfaffian systems (58A17)

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