Twistor theory of hyper-Kähler metrics with hidden symmetries

DOI10.1063/1.1588466zbMath1062.53038arXivmath/0301171OpenAlexW1531044607MaRDI QIDQ4833067

Lionel J. Mason, Maciej Dunajski

Publication date: 14 December 2004

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0301171

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10) KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) Hyper-Kähler and quaternionic Kähler geometry, ``special geometry (53C26) Relations of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian dynamical systems with topology, geometry and differential geometry (37K25) Twistor methods in differential geometry (53C28) Geometric theory, characteristics, transformations in context of PDEs (35A30)

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