Equivalence groupoids and group classification of multidimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equations

Abstract

We study admissible and equivalence point transformations between generalized multidimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equations and classify Lie symmetries of such equations. We begin with a wide superclass of Schrödinger-type equations, which includes all the other classes considered in the paper. Showing that this superclass is not normalized, we partition it into two disjoint normalized subclasses, which are not related by point transformations. Further constraining the arbitrary elements of the superclass, we construct a hierarchy of normalized classes of Schrödinger-type equations. This gives us an appropriate normalized superclass for the non-normalized class of multidimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equations with potentials and modular nonlinearities and allows us to partition the latter class into three families of normalized subclasses. After a preliminary study of Lie symmetries of nonlinear Schrödinger equations with potentials and modular nonlinearities for an arbitrary space dimension, we exhaustively solve the group classification problem for such equations in space dimension two.

arXiv comment35 pages, minor corrections

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