Integrable GL(2) geometry and hydrodynamic partial differential equations

DOI10.4310/CAG.2010.V18.N4.A4MaRDI QIDQ641525zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Abraham D. Smith

Publication date 24 October 2011

Published in Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.2789

zbMATH Keywords

classificationequivalencehydrodynamic integrable systemsintegrable \(\mathrm{GL}(2)\)-structuresstructure theoremwave equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric theory, characteristics, transformations in context of PDEs (35A30) Wave equation (35L05) Initial-boundary value problems for second-order hyperbolic equations (35L20) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10) (G)-structures (53C10) Exterior differential systems (Cartan theory) (58A15) Jets in global analysis (58A20) Hyperbolic equations on manifolds (58J45)

Abstract: This article is a local analysis of integrable GL(2)-structures of degree 4. A GL(2)-structure of degree n corresponds to a distribution of rational normal cones over a manifold M of dimension (n+1). Integrability corresponds to the existence of many submanifolds that are spanned by lines in the cones. These GL(2)-structures are important because they naturally arise from a certain family of second-order hyperbolic PDEs in three variables that are integrable via hydrodynamic reduction. Familiar examples include the wave equation, the first flow of the dKP equation, and the Boyer--Finley equation. The main results are a structure theorem for integrable GL(2)-structures, a classification for connected integrable GL(2)-structures, and an equivalence between local integrable GL(2)-structures and Hessian hydrodynamic hyperbolic PDEs in three variables. This yields natural geometric characterizations of the wave equation, the first flow of the dKP hierarchy, and several others. It also provides an intrinsic, coordinate-free infrastructure to describe a large class of hydrodynamic integrable systems in three variables.

Review text

From the author's abstract: ``This article is a local analysis of integrable \(\mathrm{GL}(2)\)-structures of degree 4. A \(\mathrm{GL}(2)\)-structure of degree n corresponds to a distribution of rational normal cones over a manifold \(M\) of dimension \((n+1)\). Integrability corresponds to the existence of many submanifolds that are spanned by lines in the cones. These \(\mathrm{GL}(2)\)-structures are important because they naturally arise from a certain family of second-order hyperbolic PDEs in three variables that are integrable via hydrodynamic reduction. Familiar examples include the wave equation, the first flow of the dKP equation, and the Boyer-Finley equation. The main results are a structure theorem for integrable \(\mathrm{GL}(2)\)-structures, a classification for connected integrable \(\mathrm{GL}(2)\)-structures, and an equivalence between local integrable \(\mathrm{GL}(2)\)-structures and Hessian hydrodynamic hyperbolic PDEs in three variables. This yields natural geometric characterizations of the wave equation, the first flow of the dKP hierarchy, and several others. It also provides an intrinsic, coordinate-free infrastructure to describe a large class of hydrodynamic integrable systems in three variables.

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