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- Old independent coordinates

- New independent coordinates

(It may include time as one coordinate). Assume

The original n-dimensional second order quasilinear equation:

where
is a symmetric matrix and
.
To convert:
Matrix notation: Let BT be the matrix of new coordinate derivatives:

then
A' = BT A B
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