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Theory of characteristics for first order partial differential equations

Analysis of PDEs 2010-11-29 v1

Abstract

We use the method of synthetic differential geometry to revisit the geometric reasoning employed by Lie, Klein and others in their study of partial differential equations.

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@article{arxiv.1011.5586,
  title  = {Theory of characteristics for first order partial differential equations},
  author = {Anders Kock},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.5586},
  year   = {2010}
}
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