Third-order differential equations and local isometric immersions of pseudospherical surfaces (Q2828660)

The paper deals with the problem of local isometric immersions in \({\mathbb E}^3\) of pseudo-spherical surfaces defined by the solutions of third-order differential equations of the form \(u_t-u_{xxt}=\lambda u u_{xxx} + G(u, u_x, u_{xx}), \lambda \in {\mathbb R}\). It is shown that if such a local isometric immersion exists and the second fundamental form of the surface associated to a solution \(u\) depends on a jet of finite order of \(u\), then its second fundamental form is independent of \(u\).