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New higher-order conservation laws of some classes of wave and Gordon-type equations

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A large class of wave equations, with dissipation and source terms (Gordon type equations), are analysed using a symmetry approach and constructing conservation laws. We obtain some, previously unknown, relationships between the conservation laws and symmetries in the former case. In the latter case, we use the multiplier (and homotopy) approach to construct conservation laws from which some surprisingly, interesting higher-order variational symmetries and corresponding conserved quantities are obtained for a large class of Gordon type equations similar to those of the sine-Gordon equation.

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  1. School of Mathematics and Centre for Differential Equations, Continuum Mechanics and Applications, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Wits, 2050, South Africa

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Jamal, S., Kara, A.H. New higher-order conservation laws of some classes of wave and Gordon-type equations. Nonlinear Dyn 67, 97–102 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-011-9961-1

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