Systems of conservation laws with third-order Hamiltonian structures

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Abstract: We investigate n-component systems of conservation laws that possess third-order Hamiltonian structures of differential-geometric type. The classification of such systems is reduced to the projective classification of linear congruences of lines in mathbbPn+2 satisfying additional geometric constraints. Algebraically, the problem can be reformulated as follows: for a vector space W of dimension n+2, classify n-tuples of skew-symmetric 2-forms AalphainLambda2(W) such that [ phi_{�eta gamma}A^{�eta}wedge A^{gamma}=0, ] for some non-degenerate symmetric phi.


The paper is dedicated to the problem of classification of \(n\)-component systems of conservation laws admitting a third-order Poisson operator (structure) of differential geometric type. The authors prove that such systems of first-order partial differential equations are invariant under reciprocal transformations unlike those possessing a first-order Poisson operator. Thus the classification of the systems of conservation laws under consideration is modulo reciprocal transformations. In order to achieve their goal, the authors apply a geometric approach proposed by \textit{S. I. Agafonov} and the first author [Izv. Math. 60, No. 6, 1097--1122 (1996; Zbl 0889.35063); translation from Izv. Ross. Akad. Nauk, Ser. Mat. 60, No. 6, 3--30 (1996); Manuscr. Math. 106, No. 4, 461--488 (2001; Zbl 1149.35385)] to associate a \(n\)-parameter family of lines in projective space to a system of conservation laws. This allows the authors to give a complete description of the systems of conservation laws for \(n=2,3\) while the case \(n\geq 4\) still remains open. The paper is mainly aimed at experts in completely integrable systems with certain background in algebraic and differential geometry.



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