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Lectures on Geometry of Monge–Ampère Equations with Maple

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The main goal of these lectures is to give a brief introduction to application of contact geometry to Monge–Ampère equations.

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This work is partially supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project 18-29-10013). The third author was also supported by the Czech Grant Agency, grant no. GA17-01171S.

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Kushner, A., Lychagin, V.V., Slovák, J. (2019). Lectures on Geometry of Monge–Ampère Equations with Maple. In: Kycia, R., Ułan, M., Schneider, E. (eds) Nonlinear PDEs, Their Geometry, and Applications. Tutorials, Schools, and Workshops in the Mathematical Sciences . Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17031-8_2

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