Classification of invariant wave equations
- 1 December 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Vol. 37 (12) , 6414-6438
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.531785
Abstract
In this paper we characterize the possible symmetry groups of wave equations and certain evolutionary generalizations, in a single time variable and one or more spatial variables. Furthermore, we describe a complete classification of two-dimensional wave equations utt=F[u] and potential evolutionary equations uxt=F[u] having a point or contact symmetry group. The results rely on Lie’s classification of planar transformation groups and their relative differential invariants.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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