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Darboux System and Separation of Variables in the Goursat Problem for a Third Order Equation in ℝ3

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We construct a reduction of the three-dimensional Darboux system for the Christoffel symbols which describes conjugate curvilinear coordinate systems. The reduction is determined by one additional algebraic condition on the Christoffel symbols. It is shown that the corresponding class of solutions of the Darboux system is parameterized by six functions of one variable (two for each of three independent variables). We give explicit formulas for solutions of the Darboux system. Under the additional assumption that the Christoffel symbols are constants, a linear system associated with the Darboux one is studied. In the case, the system is reduced to the three-dimensional Goursat problem for a third-order equation with data located on the coordinate planes. It is shown that the solution to the Goursat problem enables us to separate the variables, and it is determined by its values on the coordinate lines.

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The research is fulfilled with the financial support of the Russian Science fund, project no. 15-11-20007.

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  1. North Ossetia State University, 46 Vatutina str., Vladikavkaz, 362025, Russia

    R. Ch. Kulaev

  2. Southern Mathematical Institute VSC RAS, 22 Markusa str., Vladikavkaz, 362027, Russia

    R. Ch. Kulaev

  3. Institute of Mathematics, Ufa Federal Research Centre RAS, 112 Chernyshevsky str., Ufa, 450008, Russia

    R. Ch. Kulaev

  4. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics RAS, 1-A Akademika Semenova Ave., Chernogolovka, 142432, Russia

    A. B. Shabat

  5. Adygea State University, 208 Pervomayskaya str., Maykop, 385000, Russia

    A. B. Shabat

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Russian Text © The Author(s), 2020, published in Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii. Matematika, 2020, No. 4, pp. 43–53.

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Kulaev, R.C., Shabat, A.B. Darboux System and Separation of Variables in the Goursat Problem for a Third Order Equation in ℝ3. Russ Math. 64, 35–43 (2020). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1066369X20040040

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