Characteristic Cohomology of Differential Systems (I): General Theory

DOI10.2307/2152923zbMath0845.58004OpenAlexW4231642112MaRDI QIDQ4846126

Robert L. Bryant, Phillip A. Griffiths

Publication date: 3 September 1996

Published in: Journal of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2152923

zbMATH Keywords

conservation lawsexterior differential systemsprolongationinvolutivitySpencer cohomologycohomology of differential ideals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Pfaffian systems (58A17) Hyperbolic conservation laws (35L65) Cohomology of classifying spaces for pseudogroup structures (Spencer, Gelfand-Fuks, etc.) (58H10) Exterior differential systems (Cartan theory) (58A15) Geometric theory, characteristics, transformations in context of PDEs (35A30) Overdetermined systems of PDEs with variable coefficients (35N10)

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