Consider a PDE problem with two independent variables and one dependent variable, , and consider the list of infinitesimals of a symmetry group
In the input above you can also enter the symmetry without infinitesimals' labels, as in . The corresponding infinitesimal generator is
A is invariant under the symmetry transformation generated by in that , where, in this formula, represents the prolongation necessary to act on (see InfinitesimalGenerator).
The actual form of this finite, one-parameter, symmetry transformation relating the original variables to new variables, , that leaves invariant any PDE system admitting the symmetry represented by above is obtained via
where is a (Lie group) transformation parameter. To express this transformation using jetnotation use
That this transformation leaves invariant any PDE system invariant under above is visible in the fact that it also leaves invariant the infinitesimals ; to verify this you can use ChangeSymmetry
which is the same as (but written in terms of instead of ). So to this list of infinitesimals corresponds, written in terms of , this infinitesimal generator
which is also equal to , only written in terms of .
If the new variables, , are not indicated, variables prefixed by the underscore _ to represent the new variables are introduced
An example where the Lie group parameter appears only through the subexpression
A symmetry transformation with the parameter redefined