Scattering and the geometry of the solution manifold of \(\square f+\lambda f^ 3=0\) (Q914068)

The present paper deals with a wave equation of the form \(\square f=\lambda f^ 3=0\), where \(\lambda\geq 0\). The scattering transform was shown to be a diffeomorphism of the Hilbert spaces of finite Einstein energy Goursat data \(H(C_ -)\) and \(H(C_+)\). Hence the spaces \(H(C_{\pm})\) give distinct but diffeomorphic presentations of the finite-energy solution manifold as a Hilbert space. The author has determined symplectic structures for the spaces \(H(C_{\pm})\) relative to which the conformal group \(\tilde G=SO^{\sim}(2,4)\) acts as symplectomorphisms; the scattering transform is then seen to be a symplectomorphism intertwining the actions of \(\tilde G\) on \(H(C_ -)\) and \(H(C_+)\). The symplectic structures on the spaces \(H(C_{\pm})\) extend to flat Kähler structures preserved by the group generated by the Poincaré group and dilations, P, which has \(\tilde P\subset \tilde G\). The finite-energy solution manifold thus has P-invariant flat Kähler structures.