Decio Levi, Pavel Winternitz, Ravil I. Yamilov, “Symmetries of the Continuous and Discrete Krichever–Novikov Equation”, SIGMA, 2011, Volume 7,097, 16 pp.

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Symmetries of the Continuous and Discrete Krichever–Novikov Equation

Decio Levi^a, Pavel Winternitz^b, Ravil I. Yamilov^c

^a Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettronica, Università degli Studi Roma Tre and Sezione INFN, Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale 84, 00146 Roma, Italy
^b Centre de recherches mathématiques and Département de mathématiques et de statistique, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-ville, H3C 3J7, Montréal (Québec), Canada
^c Ufa Institute of Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 112 Chernyshevsky Street, Ufa 450008, Russian Federation

Abstract: A symmetry classification is performed for a class of differential-difference equations depending on $9$ parameters. A $6$-parameter subclass of these equations is an integrable discretization of the Krichever–Novikov equation. The dimension $n$ of the Lie point symmetry algebra satisfies $1\le n\le 5$. The highest dimensions, namely $n=5$ and $n=4$ occur only in the integrable cases.

Keywords: symmetry classification, integrable PDEs, integrable differential-difference equations.

MSC: 35B06; 35K25; 37K10; 39A14

Received: June 16, 2011; in final form October 15, 2011; Published online October 23, 2011

Language: English

DOI: 10.3842/SIGMA.2011.097