Applications of Symmetry Methods to Partial Differential Equations

by George W. Bluman, Alexei F. Cheviakov, Stephen Anco

2009 · Springer Science & Business Media

This is an acessible book on the advanced symmetry methods for differential equations, including such subjects as conservation laws, Lie-Bäcklund symmetries, contact transformations, adjoint symmetries, Nöther's Theorem, mappings with some modification, potential symmetries, nonlocal symmetries, nonlocal mappings, and non-classical method. Of use to graduate students and researchers in mathematics and physics.