Einstein-Weyl geometry, the dKP equation and twistor theory

DOI10.1016/S0393-0440(00)00033-4zbMath0990.53052arXivmath/0004031WikidataQ126570303 ScholiaQ126570303MaRDI QIDQ5927606

Lionel J. Mason, Maciej Dunajski, Paul Tod

Publication date: 20 March 2001

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0004031

zbMATH Keywords

dispersionless Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation Einstein-Weyl equations geodesic congruences hyper-Kähler manifold hyper-Kähler metrics integrable systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Twistor theory, double fibrations (complex-analytic aspects) (32L25) Relations of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian dynamical systems with topology, geometry and differential geometry (37K25) Twistor methods in differential geometry (53C28) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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