Euler's elastica and beyond

zbMath1209.37086MaRDI QIDQ983100

Shigeki Matsutani

Publication date: 28 July 2010

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

zbMATH Keywords

mKdV hierarchy; lemniscate; Euler's elastica; quantized elastica

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

74K10: Rods (beams, columns, shafts, arches, rings, etc.)

37K10: Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.)

35Q53: KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations)

82D60: Statistical mechanics of polymers

74G65: Energy minimization in equilibrium problems in solid mechanics

37K20: Relations of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian dynamical systems with algebraic geometry, complex analysis, and special functions

58E50: Applications of variational problems in infinite-dimensional spaces to the sciences

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