Higher-order conservation laws for the nonlinear Poisson equation via characteristic cohomology

DOI10.1007/S00029-011-0063-1MaRDI QIDQ657843zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Daniel Fox, Oliver Goertsches

Publication date 10 January 2012

Published in Selecta Mathematica. New Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.3143

zbMATH Keywords

characteristic cohomologyhigher-order conservation lawsnonlinearizable elliptic Poisson equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Exterior differential systems (Cartan theory) (58A15) Cohomology of classifying spaces for pseudogroup structures (Spencer, Gelfand-Fuks, etc.) (58H10)

Abstract: We study higher-order conservation laws of the non-linearizable elliptic Poisson equation $$ as elements of the characteristic cohomology of the associated exterior differential system. The theory of characteristic cohomology determines a normal form for differentiated conservation laws by realizing them as elements of the kernel of a linear differential operator. The S^1--symmetry of the PDE leads to a normal form for the undifferentiated conservation law as well. We show that for higher-order conservation laws to exist, it is necessary that $f$ satisfies a linear second order ODE. In this case, an at most real two--dimensional space of new conservation laws in normal form appears at each even prolongation. When $$ this upper bound is attained and the work of Pinkall and Sterling allows them to be written explicitly. We relate higher-order conservation laws to generalized symmetries of the exterior differential system by identifying their generating functions. This Noether correspondence provides the connection between conservation laws and the canonical Jacobi fields of Pinkall and Sterling.

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