Stationary Veselov-Novikov equation and isothermally asymptotic surfaces in projective differential geometry

DOI10.1016/S0926-2245(99)00028-5MaRDI QIDQ1807641zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors E. V. Ferapontov

Publication date 23 November 1999

Published in Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9805011

zbMATH Keywords

geometric Bäcklund transformationisothermally asymptotic surfacesLelieuvre representationstationary modified Veselov-Novikov equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relations of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian dynamical systems with topology, geometry and differential geometry (37K25) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Projective differential geometry (53A20)

Abstract: It is demonstrated that the stationary Veselov-Novikov (VN) and the stationary modified Veselov-Novikov (mVN) equations describe one and the same class of surfaces in projective differential geometry: the so-called isothermally asymptotic surfaces, examples of which include arbitrary quadrics and cubics, quartics of Kummer, projective transforms of affine spheres and rotation surfaces. The stationary mVN equation arises in the Wilczynski approach and plays the role of the projective "Gauss-Codazzi" equations, while the stationary VN equation follows from the Lelieuvre representation of surfaces in 3-space. This implies an explicit Backlund transformation between the stationary VN and mVN equations which is an analog of the Miura transformation between their (1+1)-dimensional limits.

Review text

The homogeneous coordinates of a surface \(M\) in projective 3-space satisfy the linear system \[ u_{xx}= pu_y+\frac 12(V-p_y)u, \quad u_{yy}= qu_x+ \frac 12 (W-q_x)u \] with respect to asymptotic coordinates \(x,y\) on \(M\). The fundamental differential invariant obtained from this system is the cubic form \(pdx^3+ qdy^3\). If \(p=q\), the surface is said isothermally asymptotic. Examples of isothermally asymptotic surfaces include quadrics \((p=0)\), the Roman quartic surface of Steiner, Kummer's quartic, and projective transforms of affine spheres. In this article, the author first derives the stationary modified Veselov-Novikov equations (mVN) as integrability conditions of isothermally asymptotic surfaces. Secondly, he shows that the potential appearing in the Lelieuvre representation of isothermally asymptotic surfaces in Euclidean 3-space satisfies the stationary Veselov-Novikov equations. In this way he obtains a geometric Bäcklund transformation between the mVN and VN equations which generalizes the Miura transformation. The above mentioned examples of isothermally asymptotic surfaces are discussed.

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