Inner symmetries of the spatially singular part of the solutions of the Burgers equation and their Lie representations

Abstract

We describe two new discrete symmetries of the inviscid Burgers (or Riemann–Hopf) equation ut+uux=0. We derived both of them using a local, formal approach of Hopf algebraic renormalization, a tool recently used in algorithmic computations. We prove that one of them is a Lie point transformation. Symmetries generate new exact solutions from the known solutions and provide useful frames of reference in the study of shock wave formation.

Keywords

• Inviscid Burgers equation
• Symmetries of PDE
• Quasi-Miura algebraic methods