Elastic null curve flows, nonlinear C-integrable systems, and geometric realization of Cole-Hopf transformations

DOI10.1080/14029251.2020.1757223zbMATH Open1436.53079arXiv1709.08234OpenAlexW3023840284MaRDI QIDQ5113683FDOQ5113683

Zühal Küçükarslan Yüzbaşı, Stephen C. Anco

Publication date: 16 June 2020

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

Abstract: Elastic (stretching) flows of null curves are studied in three-dimensional Minkowski space. As a main tool, a natural type of moving frame for null curves is introduced, without use of the pseudo-arclength. This new frame is related to a Frenet null frame by a gauge transformation that belongs to the little group contained in the Lorentz group $SO(2,1)$ and provides an analog of the Hasimoto transformation (relating a parallel frame to a Frenet frame for curves in Euclidean space). The Cartan structure equations of the transformed frame are shown to encode a hereditary recursion operator giving a two-component generalization of the recursion operator of Burgers equation, as well as a generalization of the Cole-Hopf transformation. Three different hierarchies of integrable systems are obtained from the various symmetries of this recursion operator. The first hierarchy contains two-component Burgers-type and nonlinear Airy-type systems; the second hierarchy contains novel quasilinear Schr"odinger-type (NLS) systems; and the third hierarchy contains semilinear wave equations (in two-component system form). Each of these integrable systems is shown to correspond to a geometrical flow of a family of elastic null curves in three-dimensional Minkowski space.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.08234

zbMATH Keywords

Minkowski spaceintegrable systemnull curveCole-Hopf transformationelastic flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10) Relationships between algebraic curves and integrable systems (14H70) General theory of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, Hamiltonian and Lagrangian structures, symmetries, conservation laws (37K06) Geometric evolution equations (53E99)

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