Paper 3, Section II, D

Integrable Systems
Part II, 2012

Consider a one-parameter group of transformations acting on R4\mathbb{R}^{4}

(x,y,t,u)(exp(ϵα)x,exp(ϵβ)y,exp(ϵγ)t,exp(ϵδ)u)(x, y, t, u) \longrightarrow(\exp (\epsilon \alpha) x, \exp (\epsilon \beta) y, \exp (\epsilon \gamma) t, \exp (\epsilon \delta) u)

where ϵ\epsilon is a group parameter and (α,β,γ,δ)(\alpha, \beta, \gamma, \delta) are constants.

(a) Find a vector field WW which generates this group.

(b) Find two independent Lie point symmetries S1S_{1} and S2S_{2} of the PDE\mathrm{PDE}

(utuux)x=uyy,u=u(x,y,t),\left(u_{t}-u u_{x}\right)_{x}=u_{y y}, \quad u=u(x, y, t),

which are of the form (1).

(c) Find three functionally-independent invariants of S1S_{1}, and do the same for S2S_{2}. Find a non-constant function G=G(x,y,t,u)G=G(x, y, t, u) which is invariant under both S1S_{1} and S2S_{2}.

(d) Explain why all the solutions of (2) that are invariant under a two-parameter group of transformations generated by vector fields

W=uu+xx+12yy,V=y,W=u \frac{\partial}{\partial u}+x \frac{\partial}{\partial x}+\frac{1}{2} y \frac{\partial}{\partial y}, \quad V=\frac{\partial}{\partial y},

are of the form u=xF(t)u=x F(t), where FF is a function of one variable. Find an ODE for FF characterising these group-invariant solutions.