Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (SIGMA)

SIGMA 1 (2005), 022, 12 pages      nlin.SI/0511058      https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2005.022

Noether Symmetries and Critical Exponents

Yuri Bozhkov
Departamento de Matemática Aplicada - DMA, Instituto de Matemática, Estatistica e Computação Cientí fica - IMECC,
Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP, C.P. 6065, 13083-970 - Campinas - SP, Brasil

Received October 03, 2005, in final form November 19, 2005; Published online November 25, 2005

Abstract
We show that all Lie point symmetries of various classes of nonlinear differential equations involving critical nonlinearities are variational/divergence symmetries.

Key words: divergence symmetry; critical exponents.

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