Are there Contact Transformations for Discrete Equations?
Abstract
We define infinitesimal contact transformations for ordinary difference schemes as transformations that depend on K+1 lattice points (K ≥ 1) and can be integrated to form a local or global Lie group. We then prove that such contact transformations do not exist.
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