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Title: Second Order canonical Form
Post by: Yifei Hu on January 13, 2022, 02:37:35 PM
What is the definition here (when classifying the second order PDEs) for the second order canonical form? what are the Xi and Eta here? Is the operation here defined as taking derivative? e.g: Eta^2 = second derivative of Eta?
Title: Re: Second Order canonical Form
Post by: Victor Ivrii on January 13, 2022, 07:24:23 PM
We replace differentiation by $x$, y$ by multiplication on $\xi,\eta$. So $\partial_x^2 \mapsto \xi^2$ (just square); as a result senior terms like $Au_{xx}+2Bu_{xy}+ Cu_{yy}$ are replaced by quadratic form $A\xi^2+2B\xi\eta+C\eta^2$.

In the Linear Algebra you studied quadratic forms, right? And you know that