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On a Theorem Concerning the Prolongation of a Differential System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

Yozô Matsushima
Yozô Matsushima*
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Mathematical Institute, Nagoya University
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E. Cartan has proved that the prolonged system of a Pfaffian system in involution is also in involution. But he has treated only the case of a Pfaffian system of some special type. On the other hand in his book [3] he has reduced the solution of any differential system to the solution of a Pfaffian system of the type mentioned above, and this reduction is precisely the method of the prolongation of a differential system. Therefore it seems to be disirable to establish the above mentioned theorem in the case of an arbitrary differential system.

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Research Article
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Nagoya Mathematical Journal , Volume 6 , October 1953 , pp. 1 - 16
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Copyright © Editorial Board of Nagoya Mathematical Journal 1953

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