Joseph Krasil'shchik's introductory lectures on the Geometry of Differential Equations
Autumn 2010
Lectures take place at the Independent University of Moscow on Wednesday evenings from 17:30 to 19:10 in room 206
The first lecture is on 15 September
Short syllabus
- Jets of bundles
The Cartan distribution
Symmetries of the Cartan distribution
The Lie-Bäcklund theorem
- Nonlinear differential equations and operators
Classical symmetries of differential equations, their computation and application
The Bianchi-Lie theorem
- Infinite jets and geometric structures on them
The Cartan distribution on infinite jets and its symmetries
Linearizations and evolutionary vector fields
- Prolongations of differential equations
Infinitely prolonged equations
Higher symmetries of differential equations, their computation and application
Recursion operators for symmetries