On the Monge-Ampere equivalent of the sine-Gordon equation

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/27/23/026MaRDI QIDQ4874853zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Y. Nutku, E. V. Ferapontov

Publication date 11 September 1996

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/solv-int/9409004

zbMATH Keywords

mean curvaturesine-Gordon equationMonge-Ampère equationBäcklund-type transformation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) Correspondences and other transformation methods (e.g., Lie-Bäcklund) for PDEs on manifolds (58J72)

Abstract: Surfaces of constant negative curvature in Euclidean space can be described by either the sine-Gordon equation for the angle between asymptotic directions, or a Monge-Ampere equation for the graph of the surface. We present the explicit form of the correspondence between these two integrable non-linear partial differential equations using their well-known properties in differential geometry. We find that the cotangent of the angle between asymptotic directions is directly related to the mean curvature of the surface. This is a Backlund-type transformation between the sine-Gordon and Monge-Ampere equations.

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