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Chapter 6 Partial Differential Equations

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6.3. CHARACTERISTICS AND HIGHER ORDER EQUATIONS 43<br />

Thus, by our construction of ϕ, wehave<br />

which implies<br />

aϕ 2 x +2bϕ x ϕ y + cϕ 2 y =0<br />

a (ϕ 1x + iϕ 2x ) 2 +2b (ϕ 1x + iϕ 2x )(ϕ 1y + iϕ 2y )+c (ϕ 1y + iϕ 2y ) 2 =0.<br />

Collecting the real parts we have<br />

a ( ϕ 2 1x − ϕ 2 2x)<br />

+2b (ϕ1x ϕ 1y − ϕ 2x ϕ 2y )+c ( ϕ 2 1y − ϕ 2 2y)<br />

=0.<br />

We now collect the terms involving ξ = ϕ 1 on the left and those involving η = ϕ 2 on<br />

the right to get<br />

aξ 2 x +2bξ x ξ y + cξ 2 y = aη 2 x +2bη x η y + cη 2 y<br />

which from (6.3.10) gives<br />

ã = ˜c.<br />

Next we collect the imaginary parts to get<br />

2<br />

(aϕ 1x ϕ 2x + b ( )<br />

)<br />

ϕ 2x ϕ 1y + ϕ 2y ϕ 1x + cϕ1y ϕ 2y =0,<br />

which implies<br />

˜b = aξx η x + b ( ξ y η x + ξ x η y<br />

)<br />

+ cξy η y =0.<br />

Also, since ˜b = 0, we know from invariance that<br />

−ã˜c = ˜b 2 − ã˜c 0, y > 0,<br />

into canonical form.<br />

In this case we have<br />

dy<br />

dx = iy x = b + i√ ac − b 2<br />

a

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