Completely integrable curve flows on adjoint orbits (Q5954159)

This paper gives a systematic approach of the construction of integrable geometric curve flows on adjoint orbits from flows in the soliton hierarchy associated to a compact Lie group. Here the main tool is the development map which is a bijection between a space of smooth curves on the adjoint orbit and a space of curves in the Lie algebra associated with soliton equations, by which Hamiltonian structures, Bäcklund transformations and finite type solutions of these geometric curve flows are constructed. Several explicit examples of these constructions are given as well.