On the notion of conditional symmetry of differential equations

Reviews in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-18

  Cicogna, Giampaolo ^a   Laino, Michele ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b Dipartimento di Fisica Enrico Fermi   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conditional symmetries; Lie point symmetries; Partial differential equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644653353     PISSN: 0129055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0129055X06002553     Document Type: Article

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