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Symmetry is fundamental to understanding physical systems and can improve performance and sample efficiency in machine learning. Both pursuits require knowledge of the underlying symmetries in data, yet discovering these symmetries…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yuxuan Chen , Jung Yeon Park , Floor Eijkelboom , Jianke Yang , Jan-Willem van de Meent , Lawson L. S. Wong , Robin Walters

Fundamentals on Lie group methods and applications to differential equations are surveyed. Many examples are included to elucidate their extensive applicability for analytically solving both ordinary and partial differential equations.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-04-18 F. Güngör

Group classification of a class of nonlinear fin equations is carried out exhaustively. Additional equivalence transformations and conditional equivalence groups are also found. They allow to simplify results of classification and further…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-18 O. O. Vaneeva , A. G. Johnpillai , R. O. Popovych , C. Sophocleous

We study the interplay between the differential Galois group and the Lie algebra of infinitesimal symmetries of systems of linear differential equations. We show that some symmetries can be seen as solutions of a hierarchy of linear…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-11-23 David Blázquez-Sanz , Juan J. Morales-Ruiz , Jacques-Arthur Weil

A powerful method for solving non-linear first-order ordinary differential equations, which is based on geometrical understanding of the corresponding dynamics of the so called Lie systems, is developed. This method allows us not only to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-11-22 Jose F. Carinena , Janusz Grabowski , Javier de Lucas

Using the basic prolongation method and the infinitesimal criterion of invariance, we find the most general Lie point symmetries group of the Thomas equation. Looking the adjoint representation of the obtained symmetry group on its Lie…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Ouhadan , E. H. El Kinani

We introduce the notion of difference equation defined on a structured set. The symmetry group of the structure determines the set of difference operators. All main notions in the theory of difference equations are introduced as invariants…

q-alg · Mathematics 2019-08-17 Per K. Jakobsen , Valentin V. Lychagin

This article reviews the use of differential forms and Lie derivatives to find symmetries of differential equations, as originally presented by Harrison and Estabrook, J. Math. Phys., 12 (1971), 653. An outline of the method is given,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-04-23 B. Kent Harrison

In the present paper, a class of partial differential equations related to various plate and rod problems is studied by Lie transformation group methods. A system of equations determining the generators of the admitted point Lie groups…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vassil M. Vassilev , Peter A. Djondjorov

Crystals which have a uniform distribution of defects are endowed with a Lie group description which allows one to construct an associated discrete structure. These structures are in fact the discrete subgroups of the ambient Lie group. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-10-02 Rachel Nicks

This paper describes a new algorithm for determining all discrete contact symmetries of any differential equation whose Lie contact symmetries are known. The method is constructive and is easy to use. It is based upon the observation that…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Peter E. Hydon

We outline a new, systematic way of constructing and analysing field theories, where all possible continuous symmetries of a given model are derived using the method of Lie point symmetries. If the model has free parameters, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-25 Damien P. George

The Lie linearizability criteria are extended to complex functions for complex ordinary differential equations. The linearizability of complex ordinary differential equations is used to study the linearizability of corresponding systems of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2011-07-25 S. Ali , F. M. Mahomed , Asghar Qadir

This letter investigates the Lie point symmetries and conserved quantities of the Lagrangian systems on time scales, which unify the Lie symmetries of the two cases for the continuous and the discrete Lagrangian systems. By defining the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-12-12 Cai Ping-Ping , Song-Duan , Fu Jing-Li , Hong Fang-Yu

The connection between symmetries and linearizations of discrete-time dynamical systems is being inverstigated. It is shown, that existence of semigroup structures related to the vector field and having linear representations enables…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Gralewicz

Symmetry groups allow to transform solutions of differential equations continuously into other solutions. This property can be used for the observability analysis of infinite-dimensional systems with input and output. In this contribution,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-28 Bernd Kolar , Markus Schöberl

The discrete heat equation is worked out in order to illustrate the search of symmetries of difference equations. It is paid an special attention to the Lie structure of these symmetries, as well as to their dependence on the derivative…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Levi , J. Negro , M. A. del Olmo

A new method for the Lie group classification of differential equations is proposed. It is based of the determination of all possible cases of linear dependence of certain indeterminate appearing in the determining equations of symmetries…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-24 J. C. Ndogmo

This paper studies systems of linear difference equations on the lattice $\Z^n$ that are invariant under a finite group of symmetries, and shows that there exist solutions to such systems that are also invariant under this group of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Shiva Shankar

In the last few years, the notion of symmetry has provided a powerful and essential lens to view several optimization or sampling problems that arise in areas such as theoretical computer science, statistics, machine learning, quantum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Jonathan Leake , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi