Nonclassical potential symmetry generators of differential equations

Nonlinear Dynamics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 167-177

  Johnpillai, A G ^a   Kara, A H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Nonclassical potential symmetries

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); DYNAMICS; INVARIANCE; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TENSORS;

NONCLASSICAL POTENTIAL SYMMETRIES;

WAVE EQUATIONS;

EID: 0036803759     PISSN: 0924090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020498600432     Document Type: Article

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