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case,
T [F + fa+ hb] = f
2
T [a] + h
2
T [b] + gfT[a, 1]
+ghT[b, 1] + fhT[a, b], F[g + fa+ hb] = F[g] + F[g, f ]a + F[g, h]b
+ F[ f ]a
2
+ F[h]b
2
+ F[ f, h]ab.
Using (7.127) yields the following result.
Lemma 7.31
Under hypothesis
(7.127)
, there exists the set on
W
3
M
A
=
u = g + fa+ hb : F[ f ] = A
1
f
2
, F[ f, h] = A
2
fh
,
where
A
1
=
a
i, j
λ
i+j
and
A
2
=
a
i, j
(2
−i
+ 2
−j
)λ
i+j
.
Equation (7.50) can easily be stated on M
A
⊂ W
3
with A = (A
1
, A
2
). The gen-
eral problem of the existence and nonexistence of solutions on M
A
is OPEN.Some
examples given above can be treated as the existence result on the set M
A
⊂ W
3
.For
instance, Example 7.29 shows that the PDE under consideration admits the explicit
solution which formally satisfies u(x, t) ∈ M
A
⊂ W
3
= L{1, t, t
2
}. By translation
in time t → t + 1 in Example 7.19, we obtain a solution u(x , t) ∈ M
A
⊂
˜
W
3
=
L{1, e
−ωt
, t e
−ωt
}.
2. N-dimensional operators. Such sets M can be constructed for elliptic operators
in the N-dimensional space, e.g., for
F[u] = αuu + β|∇u|
2
+ γ u
2
+ εu(∇u · d)(d ∈ IR
N
),
as well as for others from Chapter 6. The problem of the existence and nonexistence
of solutions on M becomes more difficult.
3. Operators with cubic nonlinearities. In general, a similar invariant analysis can
be done for operators of higher algebraic homogenuity. For instance, as in Sec-
tion 1.5, we can consider cubic operators
A[u] = T [u] − F[u] ≡
b
i, j,k
D
i
t
uD
j
t
uD
k
t
u −
a
i, j,k
D
i
x
uD
j
x
uD
k
x
u
(or use a combination of quadratic and cubic operators). Then, e.g., for exponential
functions a(t) = e
λt
with a λ = 0, A[u] ∈ L{1, a, a
2
, a
3
} for u = g + fa ∈ W
2
.In-
variant sets M ⊂ W
2
are defined so that A[M] ⊆ L{1, a}. This yields two equations
for coefficients {g(x ), f (x)}, which determine M with a harder consistency analysis.
7.5 Evolutionary invariant sets for higher-order equations
In this section, we use the notion of evolutionary invariant sets which are associ-
ated with a prescribed nonlinear PDE. Using a particular class of such equations, the
actual relation between evolutionary invariance and the standard concept of partial
invariance (invariant sets on linear modules) is shown. More general and sophisti-
cated classes of such problems will be introduced in Chapter 8.
Consider a 1D ((1+1)-dimensional)mth-order evolution PDE
u
t
= F[u] ≡ F(x, u, u
1
, ..., u
m
) in Q = IR × [0, 1], (7.128)
where u
i
= D
i
x
u. Suppose that F ∈ C
∞
(IR
m+2
), and solutions of (7.128) are as-
sumed to be smooth, u ∈ C
∞
(Q).
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