We present here the solution of the problem on linearization of third-order ordinary differential equations by means of point and contact transformations. We provide, in explicit forms, the necessary and sufficient conditions for linearization, the equations for determining the linearizing point and contact transformations as well as the coefficients of the resulting linear equations.  2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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We present here the solution of the problem on linearization of fourthorder equations by means of point transformations. We show that all fourth-order equations that are linearizable by point transformations are contained in the class of equations which is linear in the third-order derivative. We provide the linearization test and describe the procedure for obtaining the linearizing transformations as well as the linearized equation.

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