Bäcklund transformations and Darboux integrability for nonlinear wave equations

DOI10.4310/AJM.2009.V13.N1.A3zbMATH Open1191.37038arXiv0707.4408MaRDI QIDQ1024909FDOQ1024909

Authors: Thomas A. Ivey, Jeanne N. Clelland 

Publication date: 17 June 2009

Published in: The Asian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that second-order hyperbolic Monge-Ampere equations for one function of two variables are connected to the wave equation by a Backlund transformation if and only if they are integrable by the method of Darboux at second order. One direction of proof, proving Darboux integrability, follows the implications of the wave equation for the invariants of the G-structure associated to the Backlund transformation. The other direction constructs Backlund transformations for Darboux integrable equations as solutions of an involutive exterior differential system. Explicit transformations are given for several equations on the Goursat-Vessiot list of Darboux-integrable equations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.4408

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zbMATH Keywords

exterior differential systemsCartan's method of equivalenceBäcklund transformationshyperbolic Monge-Ampére systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lie-Bäcklund and other transformations for infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37K35) (G)-structures (53C10) Exterior differential systems (Cartan theory) (58A15) Correspondences and other transformation methods (e.g., Lie-Bäcklund) for PDEs on manifolds (58J72) Second-order hyperbolic equations (35L10)

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