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ASI-TPA/8/96Symmetry classication of multi-componentscale-invariant wave equationsW.I. Fushchych, P.V. MarkoInstitute of Mathematics,3 Tereshchenkivska Street, 252004 Kiev, UkraineR.Z. ZhdanovArnold-Sommerfeld Institute for Mathematical Physics,TU Clausthal, Leibnizstrae 10, 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany 3 July, 1996AbstractWe describe systems of nonlinear wave equations of the form 2uj = Fj(u1; : : : ; u4),j = 1; : : : ; 4 invariant under the extended Poincare group eP (1; 3). As a result, we haveobtained twenty inequivalent classes of nonlinear eP (1; 3)-invariant systems of partial dif-ferential equations. Arnold{Sommerfeld{Institute for Mathematical PhysicsInstitute for Theoretical Physics ATechnical University Clausthal38678 Clausthal{ZellerfeldFederal Republic of Germany EASI-TPA/8/96Permanent address: Institute of Mathematics, 3 Tereshchenkivska Street, 252004 Kiev, Ukraine It is well-known that the maximal symmetry group admitted by the nonlinear wave equation2u  ux0x0 43u = F (u) (1)with an arbitrary smooth function F (u) is the 10-parameter Poincare group P (1; 3) having thefollowing generators: P = @; J = gx@ gx@; (2)where @ = @=@x; g = diag(1;1;1;1), ; ;  = 0; : : : ; 3. Hereafter, the summationover the repeated indices from 0 to 3 is understood.As established in [1], equation (1) admits the wider symmetry group in two cases1: F (u) = uk; k 6= 1; (3)2: F (u) = eku; k 6= 0; (4)where ; k are arbitrary constants, only.Equations (1) with nonlinearities (3), (4) admit the one-parameter groups of scale trans-formations D(1) having the following generators:1: D = x@ + 21 ku@u;2: D = x@ 2k@u: (5)The Lie transformation group generated by the operators (2), (5) is called the extendedPoincare group eP (1; 3) [2].Let us note that in [3] a partial symmetry classication of eP (1; 3)-invariant partial dier-ential equations (PDEs) of the form 2u = F (u; u) (6)have been performed and two classes of eP (1; 3)-invariant