SIGMA 7 (2011), 079, 24 pages      arXiv:1108.3648      https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2011.079
Contribution to the Proceedings of the Conference “Symmetries and Integrability of Difference Equations (SIDE-9)”

Linearizability of Nonlinear Equations on a Quad-Graph by a Point, Two Points and Generalized Hopf-Cole Transformations

Decio Levi ^a and Christian Scimiterna ^b
a) Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettronica, Università degli Studi Roma Tre and Sezione INFN, Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale 84, 00146 Roma, Italy
^b) Dipartimento di Fisica, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettronica, Università degli Studi Roma Tre and Sezione INFN, Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale 84, 00146 Roma, Italy

Received April 15, 2011, in final form August 11, 2011; Published online August 18, 2011

Abstract
In this paper we propose some linearizability tests of partial difference equations on a quad-graph given by one point, two points and generalized Hopf-Cole transformations. We apply the so obtained tests to a set of nontrivial examples.

Key words: quad-graph equations; linearizability; point transformations; Hopf-Cole transformations.

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