In this paper we study $3^{ \mathrm{ rd}}$ order (system of) PDEs in two independent variables $x,y$ and one unknown function $u$ that are invariant with respect to the group of affine transformation $\mathrm{ Aff}(3)$ of $\mathbb{ R}^3=\{ (x,y,u)\}$. After proving their relationship with the Fubini-Pick invariant, we derive the aforementioned PDEs by using a general method introduced in [D.V. Alekseevsky, J. Gutt, G. Manno, and G. Moreno: A general method to construct invariant { PDEs} on homogeneous manifolds. Communications in Contemporary Mathematics (2021)], which sheds light on some of their geometrical properties.

Categories: math.DG

Third-order affine-invariant (systems of) PDEs in two independent variables as vanishing of the Fubini-Pick invariant