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What does the flow of the principal symbol of the differential operator tell us about the PDE?
Disclaimer: Let me apologize in advance for asking this slightly vague question
Let $M$ be a manifold and let $P$ be a partial differential operator acting on $C^{\infty}(M)$. Associated to $P$ there'...
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The centralizer of Lienard equation
Consider the lienard vector field $\cases{
x'=y -F(x) \\
y'=-x }
$ in $\mathbb{R}^{2}$, where $F$ is a polynomial fuction with $F(0)=0$. Assume that $Y$ is a smooth vector field globally defined ...