Notes on symmetries of the KdV equation

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I am having trouble understanding a section in http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~francisv/publications/XXV-ICGTMP-Proceeding/dkdv.pdf: . It is on page 3. Section 3 -- Discretization of the Korteweg-de Vries equation. I don't understand why V_4=x∂_x+3t∂_t-2u∂_u generates a symmetry group of the KdV. I see that it generates the transformation
(x',t',u')= (x\exp(\epsilon), 3t\exp(\epsilon), -2u\exp(\epsilon))
So u'_{t'}-6u'u'_{x'}+u'_{x'x'x'}=-{2\over 3}u_t-24\exp(\epsilon)uu_x-2\exp(-2\epsilon)u_{xxx} How does this vanish (so that we get symmetry) given that u satisfies the KdV?
 
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Shouldn't the transformation be:

(x exp(e), t exp(3e), u exp(-2e)) ?
 
Indeed!
 
can these equations be used to model black holes for instance in analogy to water waves?
 
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