Paper 3, Section II, D
Consider a one-parameter group of transformations acting on
where is a group parameter and are constants.
(a) Find a vector field which generates this group.
(b) Find two independent Lie point symmetries and of the
which are of the form (1).
(c) Find three functionally-independent invariants of , and do the same for . Find a non-constant function which is invariant under both and .
(d) Explain why all the solutions of (2) that are invariant under a two-parameter group of transformations generated by vector fields
are of the form , where is a function of one variable. Find an ODE for characterising these group-invariant solutions.
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