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From PDEs to Pfaffian fibrations

Differential Geometry 2020-10-13 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We explain how to encode the essential data of a PDE on jet bundle into a more intrinsic object called Pfaffian fibration. We provide motivations to study this new notion and show how prolongations, integrability and linearisations of PDEs generalise to this setting.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1901.02084,
  title  = {From PDEs to Pfaffian fibrations},
  author = {Francesco Cattafi and Marius Crainic and Maria Amelia Salazar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.02084},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

49 pages; v3 several sections rewritten, section 3.4 added

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