Selected Topics in the Geometrical Study of Differential Equations

Download or read book Selected Topics in the Geometrical Study of Differential Equations written by Niky Kamran and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The geometrical study of differential equations has a long and distinguished history, dating back to the classical investigations of Sophus Lie, Gaston Darboux, and Elie Cartan. Currently, these ideas occupy a central position in several areas of pure and applied mathematics. In this book, the author gives an overview of a number of significant ideas and results developed over the past decade in the geometrical study of differential equations. Topics covered in the book include symmetries of differential equations and variational problems, the variational bi-complex and conservation laws, geom.