Lie point symmetries of a general class of PDEs: the heat equation

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2012.09.004zbMATH Open1257.35021arXiv1210.2038OpenAlexW1979149772MaRDI QIDQ694786FDOQ694786

Authors: Andronikos Paliathanasis, Michael Tsamparlis 

Publication date: 13 December 2012

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give two theorems which show that the Lie point and the Noether symmetries of a second-order ordinary differential equation of the form (D/(Ds))(((Dx^{i}(s))/(Ds)))=F(x^{i}(s),x^{j}(s)) are subalgebras of the special projective and the homothetic algebra of the space respectively. We examine the possible extension of this result to partial differential equations (PDE) of the form A^{ij}u_{ij}-F(x^{i},u,u_{i})=0 where u(x^{i}) and u_{ij} stands for the second partial derivative. We find that if the coefficients A^{ij} are independent of u(x^{i}) then the Lie point symmetries of the PDE form a subgroup of the conformal symmetries of the metric defined by the coefficients A^{ij}. We specialize the study to linear forms of F(x^{i},u,u_{i}) and write the Lie symmetry conditions for this case. We apply this result to two cases. The wave equation in an inhomogeneous medium for which we derive the Lie symmetry vectors and check our results with those in the literature. Subsequently we consider the heat equation with a flux in an n-dimensional Riemannian space and show that the Lie symmetry algebra is a subalgebra of the homothetic algebra of the space. We discuss this result in the case of de Sitter space time and in flat space.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.2038

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zbMATH Keywords

homothetic motionsNoether symmetriesde Sitter space time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetries, invariants, etc. in context of PDEs (35B06)

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