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Exterior Differential Systems with Symmetry

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We use the theory of reduction of exterior differential systems with symmetry to study the problem of using a symmetry group of a differential equation to find noninvariant solutions.

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Utah State University, Logan, UT, 84321, USA

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Anderson, I.M., Fels, M.E. Exterior Differential Systems with Symmetry. Acta Appl Math 87, 3–31 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10440-005-1136-y

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