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Separation of variables in the wave equation. Sets of the type (1.1) and the algebra SU(1.2)

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It is shown that for the wave equation in Minkowski space all complete sets of symmetry operators that contain one istropic operator reduce to sets in which the isotropic operator has the form δ/δx0+δ/δx3.

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 2, pp. 102–105, February, 1991.

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Bagrov, V.G., Samsonov, B.V. & Shapovalov, A.V. Separation of variables in the wave equation. Sets of the type (1.1) and the algebra SU(1.2). Soviet Physics Journal 34, 168–171 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00940962

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