A solvable string on a Lorentzian surface

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2013.10.009MaRDI QIDQ2636741zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jeanne N. Clelland, Peter J. Vassiliou

Publication date 31 January 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.0087

zbMATH Keywords

Cauchy problemDarboux integrabilityharmonic mapWeierstrass representationpseudo-Riemannian surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Initial value problems for second-order hyperbolic equations (35L15) Hyperbolic equations on manifolds (58J45)

Abstract: It is shown that there are nonlinear sigma models which are Darboux integrable and possess a solvable Vessiot group in addition to those whose Vessiot groups are central extensions of semi-simple Lie groups. They govern harmonic maps between Minkowski space $mathbb{R}^{1,1}$ and certain complete, non-constant curvature 2-metrics. The solvability of the Vessiot group permits a reduction of the general Cauchy problem to quadrature. We treat the specific case of harmonic maps from Minkowski space into a non-constant curvature Lorentzian 2-metric, $$. Despite the completeness of $$ we exhibit a Cauchy problem with real analytic initial data which blows up in finite time. We also derive a hyperbolic Weierstrass representation formula for all harmonic maps from $mathbb{R}^{1,1}$ into $$.

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