## Nonlocal symmetries and the theory of coverings: An addendum to A. M. Vinogradov’s ’Local Symmetries and Conservation Laws’.(English)Zbl 0547.58043

For a system $${\mathcal Y}$$ of (nonlinear partial) differential equations, the notion of a covering $$\tilde {\mathcal Y}_{\infty}\to {\mathcal Y}_{\infty}$$ is introduced, where $${\mathcal Y}_{\infty}$$ is the infinite prolongation of $${\mathcal Y}$$. It is shown how the local infinitesimal symmetries of $$\tilde {\mathcal Y}_{\infty}$$ generate nonlocal (involving integro-differential operators) symmetries of $${\mathcal Y}_{\infty}$$. This provides an effective procedure for calculating the nonlocal symmetries of $${\mathcal Y}:$$ 1) find the coverings $$\tilde {\mathcal Y}_{\infty}$$ of $${\mathcal Y}_{\infty}$$, 2) compute the local symmetries of $$\tilde {\mathcal Y}_{\infty}$$ using, for example, the technique of the second author [ibid. 2, 21-78 (1984; Zbl 0534.58005)].
Reviewer: S.V.Duzhin

### MSC:

 58J70 Invariance and symmetry properties for PDEs on manifolds 57M10 Covering spaces and low-dimensional topology 35A30 Geometric theory, characteristics, transformations in context of PDEs 35Q99 Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application

### Keywords:

(nonlinear partial) differential equations

Zbl 0534.58005
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