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

continuum SPIN chainsdiffeomorphismsEuler-Poincaré equationsHamilton's principleharmonic mapssingular momentum mapsSobolev norms

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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The authors uses the Euler-Poincaré (EP) framework to study the \(G\)-strand equations making up the PDE system obtained from the EP variational equations for a \(G\)-invariant Lagrangian and an auxiliary zero-curvature equation, often arising in integrable chiral models, where it sets up the Lax-pair formulation of the system. When the \(G\)-invariant Lagrangian has been choosed, the combined dynamics and zero-curvature system of \(G\)-strand equations follows in the EP framework.NEWLINENEWLINEThe authors study collisions of solutions with singular support (peakons) of \(G\)-strands arising for diffeomorphisms on the real line when \(G=\mathrm{diff}(\mathbb R)\), for which the group product is the composition of smooth integrable functions. The peakon-peakon and peakon-antipeakon collision interactions are found to admit elementary solution methods reducing to solving either the Laplace or the wave equations depending on the sign in the Lagrangian. Also two complexified version of the \(\mathrm{Diff}(\mathbb R)\)-strand equations are introduced together with a formulation of their peakon solutions, solved then by elementary means, where the peakon-peakon and peakon-antipeakon collision interactions involve the solution of the Laplace or wave operator.

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• Invariant variational problems on homogeneous spaces
• G-strands on symmetric spaces
• Non-standard higher-order \(G\)-strand partial differential equations on matrix Lie algebra
• Higher-Order Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Invariant Lagrangians on a Lie Group: The Case of Nonlocal Hunter–Saxton Type Peakons

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