On completely integrable geometric evolutions of curves of Lagrangian planes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2008
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.
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- Research Article
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- Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 137 , Issue 1 , February 2007 , pp. 111 - 131
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- 2007 Royal Society of Edinburgh
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