Peter Olver in nLab

Peter J. Olver is a mathematician at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. His interests include the application of the Lie theory to dynamical systems, Hamiltonian mechanics, variational calculus, invariant theory…

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On Lie groups and differential equations:

• Peter Olver: Applications of Lie groups to differential equations, Graduate Texts in Mathematics 107, Springer (1986, 1993) [doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-4350-2]

On invariant theory:

• Peter Olver: Classical Invariant Theory, Cambridge University Press (1999) [doi:10.1017/CBO9780511623660]

• Peter Olver: Equivalence, invariants, and symmetry, Cambridge Univ. Press (1995)

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