Parametric Bäcklund transformations I: Phenomenology

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 357, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1061-1093

  Clelland, Jeanne N ^a   Ivey, Thomas A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Department of Teacher Education and Department of Sociology and Anthropology   (United States)

Author keywords

B cklund transformations; Cartan's method of equivalence; Exterior differential systems; Hyperbolic Monge Amp re systems; Weingarten surfaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 14844323740     PISSN: 00029947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-04-03536-6     Document Type: Article

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