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and the two remaining equations in (5.232) as
W
x
C pW
u
C
pq
u
W
q
D 0; (5.234a)
W
y
C qW
u
C
pq
u
W
p
D 0: (5.234b)
ese are easily solved giving (5.230). If we choose
W D x
u
p
; (5.235)
then from (5.233), (5.231), and (5.203) we have
X D q; Y D y
u
q
; U D x; P D
u
pq
; Q D
q
p
; (5.236)
and under this contact transformation
U
XX
D
2uu
x
u
y
u
xy
C u
2
u
xx
u
yy
u
2
xy
u
2
x
u
2
y
u
3
x
u
2
y
u
yy
D 0: (5.237)
We note that through (5.236), we are able to explicitly solve for x; y; and u, giving
x D U; y D Y
XP
Q
; u D
X
2
P
Q
; (5.238)
and one can show that under this transformation, (5.229) becomes U
XX
D 0.
5.4.3 ELLIPTIC MA EQUATIONS
We now extend our results to elliptic Monge–Ampere equations. We again consider
Ar C Bs C C t C D
rt s
2
D E; (5.239)
and suppose that it admits two general first integrals, say
F
.
˛
1
˙ iˇ
1
; ˛
2
˙ iˇ
2
/
D 0; (5.240)
where F is an arbitrary function of ˛
i
˙ iˇ
i
; i D 1; 2; and ˛
i
; ˇ
i
are real functions of x; y; u; p,
and q. We will show it is possible to transform (5.239) to U
XX
C U
Y Y
D 0.
We define
X D ˛
1
; Y D ˇ
1
; P D ˇ
2
; Q D ˛
2
(5.241)
and we’ll assume that U exists such that the contact conditions are satisfied. Consider
U
XX
C U
Y Y
D 0: