In Communications in Contemporary Mathematics 24 3, (2022),the authors have developed a method for constructing G-invariant partial differential equations (PDEs) imposed on hypersurfaces of an $(n+1)$-dimensional homogeneous space $G/H$, under mild assumptions on the Lie group G. In the present paper, the method is applied to the case when $G=\mathsf{PGL}(n+1)$ (respectively, $G=\mathsf{Aff}(n+1)$) and the homogeneous space $G/H$ is the $(n+1)$-dimensional projective $\mathbb{P}^{n+1}$ (respectively, affine $\mathbb{A}^{n+1}$) space, respectively. The main result of the paper is that projectively or affinely invariant PDEs with n independent and one unknown variables are in one-to-one correspondence with invariant hypersurfaces of the space of trace-free cubic forms in n variables with respect to the group $\mathsf{CO}(d,n-d)$ of conformal transformations of $\mathbb{R}^{d,n-d}$.

We carry out the extended symmetry analysis of an ultraparabolic Fokker–Planck equation with three independent variables, which is also called the Kolmogorov equation and is singled out within the class of such Fokker–Planck equations by its remarkable symmetry properties. In particular, its essential Lie invariance algebra is eight-dimensional, which is the maximum dimension within the above class. We compute the complete point symmetry pseudogroup of the Fokker–Planck equation using the direct method, analyse its structure and single out its essential subgroup. After listing inequivalent one- and two-dimensional subalgebras of the essential and maximal Lie invariance algebras of this equation, we exhaustively classify its Lie reductions, carry out its peculiar generalised reductions and relate the latter reductions to generating solutions with iterative action of Lie-symmetry operators. As a result, we construct wide families of exact solutions of the Fokker–Planck equation, in particular, those parameterised by an arbitrary finite number of arbitrary solutions of the (1+1)-dimensional linear heat equation. We also establish the point similarity of the Fokker–Planck equation to the (1+2)-dimensional Kramers equations whose essential Lie invariance algebras are eight-dimensional, which allows us to find wide families of exact solutions of these Kramers equations in an easy way.

It is known that a polynomial local diffeomorphism $(f,\, g): {\mathbb {R}}^{2} \to {\mathbb {R}}^{2}$ is a global diffeomorphism provided the higher homogeneous terms of $f f_x+g g_x$ and $f f_y+g g_y$ do not have real linear factors in common. Here, we give a weight-homogeneous framework of this result. Our approach uses qualitative theory of differential equations. In our reasoning, we obtain a result on polynomial Hamiltonian vector fields in the plane, generalization of a known fact.

We obtain a new theorem for the non-properness set $S_f$ of a non-singular polynomial mapping $f:\mathbb C^n \to \mathbb C^n$. In particular, our result shows that if f is a counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture, then $S_f\cap Z \neq \emptyset $, for every hypersurface Z dominated by $\mathbb C^{n-1}$ on which some non-singular polynomial $h: \mathbb C^{n}\to \mathbb C$ is constant. Also, we present topological approaches to the Jacobian conjecture in $\mathbb C^n$. As applications, we extend bidimensional results of Rabier, Lê and Weber to higher dimensions.

We consider symmetries of the Dedonder equation arising from variational problems with partial derivatives. Assuming a proper action of the symmetry group, we identify a set of reduced equations on an open dense subset of the domain of definition of the fields under consideration. By continuity, the Dedonder equation is satisfied whenever the reduced equations are satisfied.

Let D be a domain in ℝm+1 and E be a domain in ℝn+1. A pair of a smooth mapping f : D → E and a smooth positive function ϕ on D is called a caloric morphism if ϕ ˙u o f is a solution of the heat equation in D whenever u is a solution of the heat equation in E. We give the characterization of caloric morphisms, and then give the determination of caloric morphisms. In the case of m < n, there are no caloric morphisms. In the case of m = n, caloric morphisms are generated by the dilation, the rotation, the translation and the Appell transformation. In the case of m > n, under some assumption on f, every caloric morphism is obtained by composing a projection with a direct sum of caloric morphisms of ℝn+1.

An implicitly defined second order ODE is said to be singular if the second derivative cannot be smoothly written in terms of lower order variables. The standard existence and uniqueness theory cannot be applied to such ODE and the graphs of solutions may fail to be regular curves (i.e., the solutions may have isolated C0-points or may fail to be single valued). In this paper we describe a local analysis for a large class of implicit second order ODE whose singular points satisfy a regularity condition. Within this class of ODE there is a secondary notion of (contact) singularity which is analogous to rest points for regular ODE. Theorems 5, 6, 7 and 8 produce invariants for these singularities which control the existence, uniqueness and the level of regularity in solutions.