Poisson Actions and Scattering Theory for Integrable Systems

zbMATH Open0935.35163arXivdg-ga/9707004MaRDI QIDQ4257465FDOQ4257465

Authors: Chuu-Lian Terng, Karen Uhlenbeck 

Publication date: 4 May 2000

Abstract: Conservation laws, heirarchies, scattering theory and B"acklund transformations are known to be the building blocks of integrable partial differential equations. We identify these as facets of a theory of Poisson group actions, and apply the theory to the ZS-AKNS nxn heirarchy (which includes the non-linear Schr"odinger equation, modified KdV, and the n-wave equation). We also discuss a number of applications in geometry, including the sine-Gordon equation, harmonic maps, Schr"odinger flows on Hermitian symmetric spaces, Darboux orthogonal coordinates, and isometric immerisons of one space form in another.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9707004

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zbMATH Keywords

conservation lawsscattering theoryPoisson structuresymplectic structuresnegative flowsrational loop groupBirkhoff decompositionsBäcklund transformationsPoisson group actionspositive flowsZS-AKNS \(n\times n\) matrix hierarchy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Scattering theory for PDEs (35P25) KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10) Relations of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian dynamical systems with infinite-dimensional Lie algebras and other algebraic structures (37K30)

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• Loop group decompositions in almost split real forms and applications to soliton theory and geometry
• Classical double, \(R\)-operators, and negative flows of integrable hierarchies
• The \(n \times n\) KdV hierarchy
• The symmetries of solitons
• Elliptic algebro-geometric solutions of the KdV and AKNS hierarchies - an analytic approach
• Solitons for the Schrödinger flows on Hermitian symmetric spaces
• Factorization problems on rational loop groups, and the Poisson geometry of Yang-Baxter maps
• Nonlinear mirror image method for nonlinear Schrödinger equation: Absorption/emission of one soliton by a boundary
• Poisson brackets associated to the conformal geometry of curves
• Poisson commuting energies for a system of infinitely many bosons
• Quantum fluctuations of the metric, three-geometries and conformal embeddings in four-manifolds
• Tau function and Virasoro action for the \(n\times n\) KdV hierarchy
• Hierarchy of Poisson brackets for elements of a scattering matrix
• The matrix nonlinear Schrödinger equation in dimension 2
• Tau functions and Virasoro actions for soliton hierarchies

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