Derivation of Louisville-Bratu-Gelfand Equation from Shift- or Scale-Invariance

Abstract

Louisville-Bratu-Gelfand equation appears in many different physical situations ranging from combustion to explosions to astrophysics. The fact that the same equation appears in many different situations seems to indicate that this equation should not depend on any specific physical process, that it should be possible to derive it from general principles. This is indeed what we show in this paper: That this equation can be naturally derived from basic symmetry requirements.