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A problem that is frequently encountered in a variety of mathematical contexts is to find the common invariant subspaces of a single or of a set of matrices. A new method is proposed that gives a definitive answer to this problem. The key idea consists of finding common eigenvectors for exterior powers of the matrices concerned. A convenient formulation of the Plücker relations is then used to ensure that these eigenvectors actually correspond to subspaces or provide the initial constraints for eigenvectors involving parameters. A procedure for computing the divisors of a totally decomposable vector is also provided. Several examples are given for which the calculations are too tedious to do by hand and are performed by coding the conditions found into Maple. Our main motivation lies in Lie symmetry, where the invariant subspaces of the adjoint representations for the Lie symmetry algebra of a differential equation must be known explicitly and comprehensively in order to determine all the ideals of the Lie symmetry algebra. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We obtain minimal dimension matrix representations for each of the Lie algebras of dimensions five, six, seven and eight obtained by Turkowski that have a non-trivial Levi decomposition. The key technique involves using the invariant subspaces associated to a particular representation of a semi-simple Lie algebra to help in the construction of the radical in the putative Levi decomposition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A diffusion problem involving a time derivative acting on two time scales represented by two fractional derivatives is investigated. The orders of the fractional derivatives are both between 0 and 1 and therefore the problem corresponds to the subdiffusion case. It is considered on a semi-infinite axis and the forcing term and the initial data are assumed compactly supported. To reduce the problem to that support there is a risk of being lead to an 'infected' problem due to the reflected waves on the new settled boundary. To avoid this undesirable effect of reflected waves on the standard boundaries, we establish artificial boundaries and find the appropriate artificial boundary conditions. Then, using the properties of fractional derivatives, a generalized version of the Mittag-Leffler function and some adequate manipulations of inverse Laplace transforms we find the explicit solution of the reduced problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]