From PDEs to Pfaffian fibrations

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2020-10-06

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Cattafi, F.ISNI 0000000506344936
Crainic, MariusISNI 0000000387220139
Salazar Pinzon, M.A.ISNI 0000000397093364

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Abstract

We explain how to encode the essential data of a PDE on jet bundle into a more intrinsic object called Pfaffian fibration. We provide motivations to study this new notion and show how prolongations, integrability and linearisations of PDEs generalise to this setting.

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Jet bundles, geometric study of PDEs, Spencer operators, dierential forms, distributions, Taverne

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Cattafi, F, Crainic, M N & Salazar Pinzon, M A 2020, 'From PDEs to Pfaffian fibrations', Journal of the European Mathematical Society, vol. 66, no. 1/2, pp. 187-250. https://doi.org/10.4171/LEM/66-1/2-10