Zhdanov, R. Z. Higher conditional symmetry and reduction of initial value problems. (English) Zbl 1001.35004 Nonlinear Dyn. 28, No. 1, 17-27 (2002). In the reviewed article the author gives a self-contained exposition of the symmetry approach to reduce initial value problems for PDEs developed in previous author’s works. He applies this approach for classification of initial value problems \[ u_t=u_{xxx}+F(t,x,u,u_x,u_{xx}),\quad (\alpha(x)u_x+\beta(x)u)|_{t=t_0}= \gamma(x) \] (\(F,\alpha,\beta,\gamma\) are smooth functions), which admit reduction to Cauchy problems for a system of two ordinary differental equations. Reviewer: Boris V.Loginov (Ulyanovsk) Cited in 17 Documents MSC: 35A30 Geometric theory, characteristics, transformations in context of PDEs 58J70 Invariance and symmetry properties for PDEs on manifolds Keywords:nonlinear evolution equation; Cauchy problem PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{R. Z. Zhdanov}, Nonlinear Dyn. 28, No. 1, 17--27 (2002; Zbl 1001.35004) Full Text: DOI