What is integrability of discrete variational systems?

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2013.0550MaRDI QIDQ2831316zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Raphael Boll, Matteo Petrera, Yuri B. Suris

Publication date 2 November 2016

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.0523

zbMATH Keywords

Euler-Lagrange equationsvariational systemdiscrete integrable systemdiscrete formmulti-dimensional consistency

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10) Discrete version of topics in analysis (39A12) Lattice dynamics; integrable lattice equations (37K60) Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30) Partial difference equations (39A14)

Abstract: We propose a notion of a pluri-Lagrangian problem, which should be understood as an analog of multi-dimensional consistency for variational systems. This is a development along the line of research of discrete integrable Lagrangian systems initiated in 2009 by Lobb and Nijhoff, however having its more remote roots in the theory of pluriharmonic functions, in the Z-invariant models of statistical mechanics and their quasiclassical limit, as well as in the theory of variational symmetries going back to Noether. A d-dimensional pluri-Lagrangian problem can be described as follows: given a d-form L on an m-dimensional space (called multi-time, m>d), whose coefficients depend on a sought-after function x of m independent variables (called field), find those fields x which deliver critical points to the action functionals $S_{Sigma}=in{t}_{Sigma}L$ for any d-dimensional manifold $Sigma$ in the multi-time. We derive the main building blocks of the multi-time Euler-Lagrange equations for a discrete pluri-Lagrangian problem with d=2, the so called corner equations, and discuss the notion of consistency of the system of corner equations. We analyze the system of corner equations for a special class of three-point 2-forms, corresponding to integrable quad-equations of the ABS list. This allows us to close a conceptual gap of the work by Lobb and Nijhoff by showing that the corresponding 2-forms are closed not only on solutions of (non-variational) quad-equations, but also on general solutions of the corresponding corner equations. We also find an example of a pluri-Lagrangian system not coming from a multidimensionally consistent system of quad-equations.

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