On the internal approach to differential equations. II: The controllability structure

DOI10.1515/MS-2017-0029MaRDI QIDQ5348246zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Veronika Chrastinová, Václav Tryhuk

Publication date 14 August 2017

Published in Mathematica Slovaca (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.5904

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Explicit solutions, first integrals of ordinary differential equations (34A05) Geometric theory, characteristics, transformations in context of PDEs (35A30) Pfaffian systems (58A17) Partial differential equations on manifolds; differential operators (58J99)

Abstract: The article concerns the geometrical theory of general systems $Omega$ of partial differential equations in the emph{absolute sense}, i.e., without any additional structure and subject to arbitrary change of variables in the widest possible meaning. The main result describes the composition series $Omeg{a}^{0}subsetOmeg{a}^{1}subsetcdotssubsetOmega$ where $Omeg{a}^k$ is the maximal system of differential equations "induced" by $Omega$ such that the solution of $Omeg{a}^k$ depends on arbitrary functions of $k$ independent variables (on constants if $k=0$). This is a~well--known result for the particular case of underdetermined systems of ordinary differential equations. Then $Omega=Omeg{a}^1$ and we have the composition series $Omeg{a}^{0}subsetOmeg{a}^1=Omega$ where $Omeg{a}^0$ involves all first integrals of $Omega,$ therefore $Omeg{a}^0$ is trivial (absent) in the controllable case. The general composition series $Omeg{a}^{0}subsetOmeg{a}^{1}subsetcdotssubsetOmega$ may be regarded as a~"multidimensional" controllability structure for the partial differential equations. Though the result is conceptually clear, it cannot be included into the common jet theory framework of differential equations. Quite other and genuinely coordinate--free approach is introduced.

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