Conservation laws and symmetries of Hunter-Saxton equation: revisited

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/29/3/737zbMATH Open1338.37078arXiv1501.03666OpenAlexW1515462052MaRDI QIDQ2807470FDOQ2807470

Authors: Kai Tian, Q. P. Liu 

Publication date: 25 May 2016

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Through a reciprocal transformation $mathcal{T}_0$ induced by the conservation law $partia{l}_t(u_x^2)=partia{l}_x(2u{u}_x^2)$, the Hunter-Saxton (HS) equation $u_{xt}=2u{u}_{2x}+u_x^2$ is shown to possess conserved densities involving arbitrary smooth functions, which have their roots in infinitesimal symmetries of $w_t=w^2$, the counterpart of the HS equation under $mathcal{T}_0$. Hierarchies of commuting symmetries of the HS equation are studied under appropriate changes of variables initiated by $mathcal{T}_0$, and two of these are linearized while the other is identical to the hierarchy of commuting symmetries admitted by the potential modified Korteweg-de Vries equation. A fifth order symmetry of the HS equation is endowed with a sixth order hereditary recursion operator by its connection with the Fordy-Gibbons equation. These results reveal the origin for the rich and remarkable structures of the HS equation and partially answer the questions raised by Wang [{it Nonlinearity} {�f 23}(2010) 2009].

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.03666

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zbMATH Keywords

symmetriesrecursion operatorsreciprocal transformations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10) Lie-Bäcklund and other transformations for infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37K35)

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