Contact-equivalence problem for linear hyperbolic equations

Abstract

We consider the local equivalence problem for the class of linear second-order hyperbolic equations in two independent variables under an action of the pseudo-group of contact transformations. É. Cartan’s method is used for finding the Maurer-Cartan forms for symmetry groups of equations from the class and computing structure equations and complete sets of differential invariants for these groups. The solution of the equivalence problem is formulated in terms of these differential invariants.