G-strands and peakon collisions on Diff( R)

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2013.027MaRDI QIDQ352495zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors D. D. Holm, Rossen I. Ivanov

Publication date 4 July 2013

Published in SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.6931

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zbMATH Keywords

Hamilton's principleharmonic mapsSobolev normsdiffeomorphismscontinuum SPIN chainssingular momentum mapsEuler-Poincaré equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs on manifolds (35R01)

Abstract: A $G$-strand is a map $g:mathbbRimesmathbbRoG$ for a Lie group $G$ that follows from Hamilton's principle for a certain class of $G$-invariant Lagrangians. Some $G$-strands on finite-dimensional groups satisfy 1+1 space-time evolutionary equations that admit soliton solutions as completely integrable Hamiltonian systems. For example, the $mSO(3)$-strand equations may be regarded physically as integrable dynamics for solitons on a continuous spin chain. Previous work has shown that $G$-strands for diffeomorphisms on the real line possess solutions with singular support (e.g. peakons). This paper studies collisions of such singular solutions of $G$-strands when $G=mDiff(mathbbR)$ is the group of diffeomorphisms of the real line $mathbbR$, for which the group product is composition of smooth invertible functions. In the case of peakon-antipeakon collisions, the solution reduces to solving either Laplace's equation or the wave equation (depending on a sign in the Lagrangian) and is written in terms of their solutions. We also consider the complexified systems of $G$-strand equations for $G=mDiff(mathbbR)$ corresponding to a harmonic map $g:mathbbComDiff(mathbbR)$ and find explicit expressions for its peakon-antipeakon solutions, as well.

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