An introduction to completely exceptional 2^{\textrm{nd}} order scalar PDEs

Publication date 11 March 2017

Functions of a complex variable (30-XX) Classical thermodynamics, heat transfer (80-XX)

Abstract: In his 1954 paper about the initial value problem for 2D hyperbolic nonlinear PDEs, P. Lax declared that he had "a strong reason to believe" that there must exist a well-defined class of "not genuinely nonlinear" nonlinear PDEs. In 1978 G. Boillat coined the term "completely exceptional" to denote it. In the case of

2^{e x t r m n d}

order (nonlinear) PDEs, he also proved that this class reduces to the class of Monge-Amp`ere equations. We review here, against a unified geometric background, the notion of complete exceptionality, the definition of a Monge-Amp`ere equation, and the interesting link between them.

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