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Higher-order Abel equations: Lagrangian formalism, first integrals and Darboux polynomials

José F Cariñena et al 2009 Nonlinearity 22 2953-2969   doi: 10.1088/0951-7715/22/12/008  Help

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José F Cariñena1, Partha Guha2,3 and Manuel F Rañada1
1 Departamento de Física Teórica and IUMA, Facultad de Ciencias Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
2 Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences Inselstrasse 22, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
3 S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, JD Block Sector-3, Salt Lake, Calcutta 700098, India
E-mail: jfc@unizar.es, partha@bose.res.in and mfran@unizar.es

Recommended by A S Fokas

Abstract. A geometric approach is used to study a family of higher-order nonlinear Abel equations. The inverse problem of the Lagrangian dynamics is studied in the particular case of the second-order Abel equation and the existence of two alternative Lagrangian formulations is proved, both Lagrangians being of a non-natural class (neither potential nor kinetic term). These higher-order Abel equations are studied by means of their Darboux polynomials and Jacobi multipliers. In all the cases a family of constants of the motion is explicitly obtained. The general n-dimensional case is also studied.

Mathematics Subject Classification: 34A26, 34A34, 34C14, 37J05, 70H03, 70H33

PACS numbers: 02.30.Hq, 45.20.Jj

Print publication: Issue 12 (December 2009)
Received 15 April 2009, in final form 12 October 2009
Published 30 October 2009

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