Speaker:  Pavlos Xenitidis (Liverpool Hope University, UK)

Date and time:  07.04.2021, 17:00 (GMT +03:00)

Title: Symmetries and Integrability of Difference Equations

Abstract:  Symmetries provide arguably the most reliable means to test and prove the integrability of a given equation. They are used in the analysis and classification of partial differential equations and differential-difference equations since 1970’s and 1980’s, and only very recently this approach has been extended to partial difference equations. In this talk I will consider a class of partial difference equations in two dimensions and discuss the general form of their symmetries. I will derive necessary integrability conditions for these equations and explain how they lead to symmetries and conservation laws. I will also demonstrate how symmetries can be used to find solutions and reduce a partial difference equation to discrete Painlevé type equations. Finally, I will discuss several extensions of the theory to other classes of scalar equations and to systems of difference equations.

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