Conditional symmetry properties for ordinary differential equations
| dc.contributor.author | Fatima, Aeeman | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-05-07T07:17:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-05-07T07:17:33Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-05-07 | |
| dc.description | A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Johannesburg, 2015. | |
| dc.description.abstract | This work deals with conditional symmetries of ordinary di erential equations (ODEs). We re ne the de nition of conditional symmetries of systems of ODEs in general and provide an algorithmic viewpoint to compute such symmetries subject to root di erential equations. We prove a proposition which gives important and precise criteria as to when the derived higher-order system inherits the symmetries of the root system of ODEs. We rstly study the conditional symmetry properties of linear nth-order (n 3) equations subject to root linear second-order equations. We consider these symmetries for simple scalar higherorder linear equations and then for arbitrary linear systems. We prove criteria when the derived scalar linear ODEs and even order linear system of ODEs inherit the symmetries of the root linear ODEs. There are special symmetries such as the homogeneity and solution symmetries which are inherited symmetries. We mention here the constant coe cient case as well which has translations of the independent variable symmetry inherited. Further we show that if a system of ODEs has exact solutions, then it admits a conditional symmetry subject to the rst-order ODEs related to the invariant curve conditions which arises from the known solution curves. This is even true if the system has no Lie point sym | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10539/17660 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Differential equations. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Symmetry (Mathematics) | |
| dc.title | Conditional symmetry properties for ordinary differential equations | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_ZA |
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