Poisson Actions and Scattering Theory for Integrable Systems

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Authors Chuu-Lian Terng, Karen Uhlenbeck

Publication date 4 May 2000

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9707004

zbMATH Keywords

Birkhoff decompositionsBäcklund transformationsconservation lawsnegative flowsPoisson group actionsPoisson structurepositive flowsrational loop groupscattering theorysymplectic structuresZS-AKNS \(n\times n\) matrix hierarchy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Scattering theory for PDEs (35P25) KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10) Relations of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian dynamical systems with infinite-dimensional Lie algebras and other algebraic structures (37K30)

Abstract: Conservation laws, heirarchies, scattering theory and B"acklund transformations are known to be the building blocks of integrable partial differential equations. We identify these as facets of a theory of Poisson group actions, and apply the theory to the ZS-AKNS nxn heirarchy (which includes the non-linear Schr"odinger equation, modified KdV, and the n-wave equation). We also discuss a number of applications in geometry, including the sine-Gordon equation, harmonic maps, Schr"odinger flows on Hermitian symmetric spaces, Darboux orthogonal coordinates, and isometric immerisons of one space form in another.

Review text

One identifies conservation laws, hierarchies, scattering theory, and Bäcklund transformations as facets of a theory of Poisson group actions and applies the theory to the ZS-AKNS \(n\times n\) matrix hierarchy. Topics include Poisson actions, negative flows in the decay case, Poisson structure for negative flows (decay case), action of the rational loop group, scattering data and Birkhoff decompositions, Poisson structure for the positive flows (asymptotic case), symplectic structures for the restricted case, Bäcklund transformations for the \(j\)th flow, geometric nonlinear Schrödinger equation, and first flows and flat metrics. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0918.00013].

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• The symmetries of solitons
• Poisson brackets associated to the conformal geometry of curves
• Solitons for the Schrödinger flows on Hermitian symmetric spaces
• The matrix nonlinear Schrödinger equation in dimension 2
• Tau function and Virasoro action for the n n KdV hierarchy
• Tau functions and Virasoro actions for soliton hierarchies
• Nonlinear mirror image method for nonlinear Schrödinger equation: Absorption/emission of one soliton by a boundary
• The \(n \times n\) KdV hierarchy
• Quantum fluctuations of the metric, three-geometries and conformal embeddings in four-manifolds
• Action-angle variables and conservation laws expressed in terms of scattering data for an integrable hierarchy associated with the Zakharov-Ito system
• Generalized AKS scheme of integrability via vertex algebra
• Reflection maps associated with involutions and factorization problems, and their Poisson geometry
• Hierarchy of Poisson brackets for elements of a scattering matrix
• Loop group decompositions in almost split real forms and applications to soliton theory and geometry

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