On a class of three-dimensional integrable Lagrangians

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Abstract: We characterize non-degenerate Lagrangians of the form intf(ux,uy,ut)dxdydt such that the corresponding Euler-Lagrange equations (fux)x+(fuy)y+(fut)t=0 are integrable by the method of hydrodynamic reductions. The integrability conditions constitute an over-determined system of fourth order PDEs for the Lagrangian density f, which is in involution and possess interesting differential-geometric properties. The moduli space of integrable Lagrangians, factorized by the action of a natural equivalence group, is three-dimensional. Familiar examples include the dispersionless Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (dKP) and the Boyer-Finley Lagrangians, f=ux3/3+uy2uxut and f=ux2+uy22eut, respectively. A complete description of integrable cubic and quartic Lagrangians is obtained. Up to the equivalence transformations, the list of integrable cubic Lagrangians reduces to three examples, f=uxuyut,f=ux2uy+uyut,andf=ux3/3+uy2uxut(mdKP). There exists a unique integrable quartic Lagrangian, f=ux4+2ux2utuxuyut2. We conjecture that these examples exhaust the list of integrable polynomial Lagrangians which are essentially three-dimensional (it was verified that there exist no polynomial integrable Lagrangians of degree five). We prove that the Euler-Lagrange equations are integrable by the method of hydrodynamic reductions if and only if they possess a scalar pseudopotential playing the role of a dispersionless `Lax pair'. MSC: 35Q58, 37K05, 37K10, 37K25. Keywords: Multi-dimensional Dispersionless Integrable Systems, Hydrodynamic Reductions, Pseudopotentials.



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