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A general method to construct invariant PDEs on homogeneous manifolds

Differential Geometry 2020-09-16 v2

Abstract

Let M=G/HM = G/H be an (n+1)(n+1)-dimensional homogeneous manifold and Jk(n,M)=:JkJ^k(n,M)=:J^k be the manifold of kk-jets of hypersurfaces of MM. The Lie group GG acts naturally on each JkJ^k. A GG-invariant PDE of order kk for hypersurfaces of MM (i.e., with nn independent variables and 11 dependent one) is defined as a GG-invariant hypersurface EJk\mathcal{E} \subset J^k. We describe a general method for constructing such invariant PDEs for k2k\geq 2. The problem reduces to the description of hypersurfaces, in a certain vector space, which are invariant with respect to the linear action of the stability subgroup H(k1)H^{(k-1)} of the (k1)(k-1)-prolonged action of GG. We apply this approach to describe invariant PDEs for hypersurfaces in the Euclidean space En+1\mathbb{E}^{n+1 } and in the conformal space Sn+1\mathbb{S}^{n+1}. Our method works under some mild assumptions on the action of GG, namely: A1) the group GG must have an open orbit in Jk1J^{k-1}, and A2) the stabilizer H(k1)GH^{(k-1)}\subset G of the fibre JkJk1J^k\to J^{k-1} must factorize via the group of translations of the fibre itself.

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@article{arxiv.2004.04021,
  title  = {A general method to construct invariant PDEs on homogeneous manifolds},
  author = {Dmitri V. Alekseevsky and Jan Gutt and Gianni Manno and Giovanni Moreno},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.04021},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

16 pages; it reworks and expands the first part of the preprint "Invariant PDEs on homogeneous manifolds via the affine structure of the bundles of jet spaces", see arXiv:1907.06283; to appear in Communications in Contemporary Mathematics

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