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On completely integrable geometric evolutions of curves of Lagrangian planes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2008

G. Marí Beffa
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA ([email protected])

Abstract

In this paper we find an explicit moving frame along curves of Lagrangian planes invariant under the action of the symplectic group. We use the moving frame to find a family of independent and generating differential invariants. We then construct geometric Hamiltonian structures in the space of differential invariants and prove that, if we restrict them to a certain Poisson submanifold, they become a set of decoupled Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) first and second Hamiltonian structures. We find an evolution of curves of Lagrangian planes that induces a system of decoupled KdV equations on their differential invariants (we call it the Lagrangian Schwarzian KdV equation). We also show that a generalized Miura transformation takes this system to a modified matrix KdV equation. In the four-dimensional case we show that there are no unrestricted compatible geometric pairs.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2007 Royal Society of Edinburgh

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