In this paper we study invariant differential operators on manifolds with a given parabolic structure. The model for the parabolic geometry is the quotient of the orthogonal group by a maximal parabolic subgroup corresponding to crossing of the k-th simple root of the Dynkin diagram. In particular, invariant differential operators discussed in the paper correspond (in a flat model) to the Dirac...

A generalization of the usual method of similarity analysis of differential equations, the method of partially invariant solutions, was introduced by Ovsiannikov. The degree of non-invariance of these solutions is characterized by the defect of invariance d. We develop an algorithm leading to partially invariant solutions of quasilinear systems of first-order partial differential equations. We ...

A section of a Riemannian G-manifold M is a closed submanifold Σ which meets each orbit orthogonally. It is shown that the algebra of G-invariant differential forms on M which are horizontal in the sense that they kill every vector which is tangent to some orbit, is isomorphic to the algebra of those differential forms on Σ which are invariant with respect to the generalized Weyl group of Σ, un...

In this paper we close the cases that were left open in our earlier works on the study of conformally invariant systems of second-order differential operators for degenerate principal series. More precisely, for these cases, we find the special values of the systems of differential operators, and determine the standardness of the homomorphisms between the generalized Verma modules, that come fr...

The simplification resulting from reduction of dimension involved in the study of invariant manifolds of differential equations is often difficult to achieve in practice. Appropriate coordinate systems are difficult to find or are essentially local in nature thus complicating analysis of global dynamics. This paper develops an approach which avoids the selection of coordinate systems on the man...