TY - JOUR ID - Golenia2009 LB - Golenia2009 AU - Golenia, Jolanta AU - Prykarpatsky, Yarema A. AU - Wachnicki, Eugeniusz TI - The Cartan-Monge geometric approach to the generalized characteristics method and its application to the heat equation ut-uxx=0 ST - The Cartan-Monge geometric approach to the generalized characteristics method and its application to the heat equation ut-uxx=0 JO - Opuscula Math. JA - Opuscula Math. JF - Opuscula Mathematica PY - 2009 VL - 29 IS - 1 SP - 27 EP - 39 DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2009.29.1.27 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2009.29.1.27 AB - The generalized Cartan-Monge type approach to the characteristics method is discussed from the geometric point of view. Its application to the classical one-dimensional linear heat equation \(u_t-u_{xx}=0\) is presented. It is shown that the corresponding exact solution of the Cauchy problem can be represented in a classical functional-analytic Gauss type form. KW - characteristics method KW - heat equation SN - 1232-9274 ER -