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March 2009 Bäcklund Transformations and Darboux Integrability for Nonlinear Wave Equations
Jeanne N. Clelland, Thomas A. Ivey
Asian J. Math. 13(1): 15-64 (March 2009).

Abstract

We prove that second-order Monge-Ampère equations for one function of two variables are connected to the wave equation by a Bäcklund transformation if and only if they are integrable by the method of Darboux at second order.

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Jeanne N. Clelland. Thomas A. Ivey. "Bäcklund Transformations and Darboux Integrability for Nonlinear Wave Equations." Asian J. Math. 13 (1) 15 - 64, March 2009.

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Published: March 2009
First available in Project Euclid: 23 April 2009

zbMATH: 1191.37038
MathSciNet: MR2500957

Subjects:
Primary: 37K35 , 58J72
Secondary: 35L10 , 37K35 , 53C10 , 58A15

Keywords: Bäcklund transformations , Cartan’s method of equivalence , exterior differential systems , hyperbolic Monge-Ampère systems

Rights: Copyright © 2009 International Press of Boston

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