Based on the generalized symmetry group method presented by Lou and Ma [Lou and Ma, Non-Lie symmetry groups of (2 + 1)-dimensional nonlinear systems obtained from a simple direct method, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 38 (2005) L129], firstly, both the Lie point groups and the full symmetry group of the nonisospectral BKP equation are obtained, at the same time, a relationship is constructed between th...

Higher order symmetry operators for the wave equation with scalar and vector potentials are investigated. All scalar potentials which admit second order symmetry operators are found explicitly. Symmetries of partial differential equations are used for separation of variables [1], description of conservation laws [2], construction of exact solutions [3], etc. Before can be applied, symmetries ha...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze in detail a special nonlinear partial differential equation (nPDE) of the second order which is important in physical, chemical and technical applications. The present nPDE describes nonlinear diffusion and is of interest in several parts of physics, chemistry and engineering problems alike. Since nature is not linear intrinsically the nonlinear case is t...

Title of Dissertation: Control and Stabilization of a Class of Nonlinear Systems with Symmetry Vikram Manikonda, Doctor of Philosophy, 1998 Dissertation directed by: Professor P.S. Krishnaprasad Department of Electrical Engineering The focus of this dissertation is to study issues related to controllability and stabilization of a class of underactuated mechanical systems with symmetry. In parti...

Symmetries play important roles in mathematics, physics and mechanics. Since Noether unveiled the profound relations between symmetries and conservation laws, many researches on them were done [1–15]. Recently, symmetry theories have been extended to discrete mechanics and equations [16–25]. As we know, even tiny changes in symmetry, named as perturbation to symmetry, are of great importance fo...

Axioms of Lie algebroid are discussed. In particular, it is shown that a Lie QD-algebroid (i.e. a Lie algebra bracket on the C∞(M)-module E of sections of a vector bundle E over a manifold M which satisfies [X, fY ] = f [X, Y ] + A(X,f)Y for all X, Y ∈ E , f ∈ C∞(M), and for certain A(X,f) ∈ C∞(M)) is a Lie algebroid if rank(E) > 1, and is a local Lie algebra in the sense of Kirillov if E is a ...

In this paper, using the Lie group analysis method, we study the invariance properties of the general time fractional fifth-order Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation. A systematic research to derive Lie point symmetries of the equation is performed. In the sense of point symmetry, all of the geometric vector fields and the symmetry reductions of the equation are obtained, the exact power series so...

In the first part of this paper [1], a complete description of Q-conditional symmetries for two classes of reaction-diffusion-convection equations with power diffusivities is derived. It was shown that all the known results for reaction-diffusion equations with power diffusivities follow as particular cases from those obtained in [1] but not vise versa. In the second part the symmetries obtaine...