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Following the Cartans's original method of equivalence supported by methods of parabolic geometry, we provide a complete solution for the equivalence problem of quaternionic contact structures, that is, the problem of finding a complete…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-13 Ivan Minchev , Jan Slovák

Classification of curves up to affine transformation in a finite dimensional space was studied by some different methods. In this paper, we achieve the exact formulas of affine invariants via the equivalence problem and in the view of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-03-13 Mehdi Nadjafikhah , Ali Mahdipour Shirayeh

Bagderina \cite{Bagderina2008} solved the equivalence problem for scalar third-order ordinary differential equations (ODEs), quadratic in the second-order derivative, via point transformations. However, the question is open for the general…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-10-06 Ahmad Y. Al-Dweik , M. T. Mustafa , H. Azad , F. M. Mahomed

Four coframes of invariant 1-forms are explicitly constructed using the Inductive Cartan equivalence method with rank zero corresponding to four distinct branches. These coframes are employed to characterize non-linearizable fourth-order…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Sondos R. Khalil , Ahmad Y. Al-Dweik , Marwan Aloqeili , F. M. Mahomed

The aim of the present paper is to propose an algorithm for a new ODE--solver which should improve the abilities of current solvers to handle second order differential equations. The paper provides also a theoretical result revealing the…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2007-08-01 R. Dridi , M. Petitot

We use the solution space of a pair of ODEs of at least second order to construct a smooth surface in Euclidean space. We describe when this surface is a proper embedding which is geodesically complete with finite total Gauss curvature. If…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-04 P. Gilkey , C. Y. Kim , J. H. Park

We provide criteria for deciding whether a given planar curve is an image of a given spatial curve, obtained by a central or a parallel projection with unknown parameters. These criteria reduce the projection problem to a certain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-14 Joseph M. Burdis , Irina A. Kogan

Given an autonomous second-order ordinary differential equation (ODE), we define a Riemannian metric on an open subset of the first-order jet bundle. A relationship is established between the solutions of the ODE and the geodesic curves…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2024-10-11 Antonio J. Pan-Collantes , Jose A. Alvarez-Garcia

An alternative proof of Lie's approach for linearization of scalar second order ODEs is derived using the relationship between $\lambda$-symmetries and first integrals. This relation further leads to a new $\lambda$-symmetry linearization…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-04-03 Ahmad Y. Al-Dweik , M. T. Mustafa , Raed A. Mara'beh , F. M. Mahomed

We prove the invariance of homogeneous second-order Hamiltonian operators under the action of projective reciprocal transformations. We establish a correspondence between such operators in dimension $n$ and $3$-forms in dimension $n + 1$.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Pierandrea Vergallo , Raffaele Vitolo

We extend the difference analogue of Cartan's second main theorem for the case of slowly moving periodic hyperplanes, and introduce two different natural ways to find a difference analogue of the truncated second main theorem. As…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2016-03-03 Risto Korhonen , Nan Li , Kazuya Tohge

We study the equivalence problem of classifying second order ordinary differential equations $y_{xx}=J(x,y,y_{x})$ modulo fibre-preserving point transformations $x\longmapsto \varphi(x)$, $y\longmapsto \psi(x,y)$ by using Moser's method of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Wei Guo Foo , Julien Heyd , Joël Merker

This is the lecture 3 of a mini-course of 4 lectures. Our purpose of this mini-curse is to explain some ideas of E. Cartan and S. Lie when we study differential geometry, particularly we will to explain the Cartan reduction method. The…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-09-06 J. R. Arteaga , M. Malakhaltsev

This is the lecture 1 of a mini-course of 4 lectures. Our purpose of this mini-curse is to explain some ideas of E. Cartan and S. Lie when we study differential geometry, particularly we will to explain the Cartan reduction method. The…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-09-06 J. R. Arteaga , M. Malakhaltsev

We show that for n>2 the following equivalence problems are essentially the same: the equivalence problem for Lagrangians of order n with one dependent and one independent variable considered up to a contact transformation, a multiplication…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-04-13 Boris Doubrov , Igor Zelenko

The fundamental invariants for vector ODEs of order $\ge 3$ considered up to point transformations consist of generalized Wilczynski invariants and C-class invariants. An ODE of C-class is characterized by the vanishing of the former. For…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-11 Johnson Allen Kessy , Dennis The

This is the lecture 4 of a mini-course of 4 lectures. Our purpose of this mini-curse is to explain some ideas of E. Cartan and S. Lie when we study differential geometry, particularly we will to explain the Cartan reduction method. The…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-09-06 J. R. Arteaga , M. Malakhaltsev

We describe the second order ODE's cubic in the first order derivative with 2-dimensional symmetry algebra. We show that there exist only eight different types of them. We also construct the easily verifiable Equivalence Criterion for every…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2013-07-15 Vera V. Kartak

Pre-geodesics of an affine connection are the curves that are geodesics after a reparametrization (the analogous concept in K\"ahler geometry is known as J-planar curves). Similarly, dual-geodesics on a Riemannian manifold are curves along…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Andreas Vollmer

A Cartan-geometric, jet bundle formulation of curvature-aware variance bounds in parametric statistical estimation is developed. Building on our earlier extrinsic Hilbert space approach to the Cram\'er-Rao and Bhattacharyya-type…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Sunder Ram Krishnan