Painlevé equations in the differential geometry of surfaces

DOI10.1007/b76883zbMath0970.53002MaRDI QIDQ1589918

Ulrich Eitner, Alexander Ivanovich Bobenko

Publication date: 19 December 2000

Published in: Lecture Notes in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0304/tocs/t1753.htm

zbMATH Keywords

Painlevé property; constant mean curvature; constant negative curvature; spectral parameter; isomonodromic deformation; affine differential geometry; soliton theory; affine sphere; Bonnet surface; Amsler surface; Smyth surfaces; Zakharov-Shabad representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35Q53: KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations)

30D05: Functional equations in the complex plane, iteration and composition of analytic functions of one complex variable

34M55: Painlevé and other special ordinary differential equations in the complex domain; classification, hierarchies

53C42: Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.)

37K25: Relations of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian dynamical systems with topology, geometry and differential geometry

53A05: Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces

53-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to differential geometry

53A15: Affine differential geometry

34-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to ordinary differential equations

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