Symmetries and Overdetermined Systems of Partial Differential Equations

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Eastwood, Michael (Editor), Miller, Willard (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2008.
• Series: The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, 144
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Partial differential equations.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Partial Differential Equations.; Applications of Mathematics.

Symmetries in various forms pervade mathematics and physics. Globally, there are the symmetries of a homogenous space induced by the action of a Lie group. Locally, there are the infinitesimal symmetries induced by differential operators, including not only those of first order but of higher order t...