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Equations of Physics

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Nonlinear Symmetries and Nonlinear Equations

Part of the book series: Mathematics and Its Applications ((MAIA,volume 299))

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This chapter is in the style and spirit of a review paper. We point out a number of application of Lie-point symmetries to the study of differential equations arising in different branches of Physics. Obviously, some of the sections of the previous chapter could very well belong here, and vice versa. In nearly all cases, computations turn out to be quite massive (and usually performed by computer symbolic manipulation), so we will not give details of these. Also, in some case the results alone would take several pages: in this case, we have preferred to refer to original papers rather than submerge the reader with pages of (copied) tables.

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Gaeta, G. (1994). Equations of Physics. In: Nonlinear Symmetries and Nonlinear Equations. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 299. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1018-1_10

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