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A Geometric Treatment of Implicit Differential-Algebraic Equations

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Institute for Computational Mathematics and Applications, (May 1991)

Abstract

A differential--geometric approach for proving the existence and uniqueness of solutions of implicit differential--algebraic equations is presented. It provides for a significant improvement of an earlier theory developed by the authors as well as for a completely intrinsic definition of the index of such problems. The differential--algebraic equation is transformed into an explicit ordinary differential equation by a reduction process that can be abstractly defined for specific submanifolds of tangent bundles here called reducible \$\pi\$-submanifolds. Local existence and uniqueness results for differential--algebraic equations then follow directly from the final stage of this reduction by means of an application of the standard theory of ordinary differential equations.

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