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Integrable Lagrangians and modular forms

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems 2007-11-28 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Algebraic Geometry Differential Geometry Number Theory

Abstract

We investigate non-degenerate Lagrangians of the form f(ux,uy,ut)dxdydt \int f(u_x, u_y, u_t) dx dy dt such that the corresponding Euler-Lagrange equations (fux)x+(fuy)y+(fut)t=0 (f_{u_x})_x+ (f_{u_y})_y+ (f_{u_t})_t=0 are integrable by the method of hydrodynamic reductions. We demonstrate that the integrability conditions, which constitute an involutive over-determined system of fourth order PDEs for the Lagrangian density f, are invariant under a 20-parameter group of Lie-point symmetries whose action on the moduli space of integrable Lagrangians has an open orbit. The density of the `master-Lagrangian' corresponding to this orbit is shown to be a modular form in three variables defined on a complex hyperbolic ball. We demonstrate how the knowledge of the symmetry group allows one to linearise the integrability conditions.

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@article{arxiv.0707.3433,
  title  = {Integrable Lagrangians and modular forms},
  author = {E. V. Ferapontov and A. V. Odesskii},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.3433},
  year   = {2007}
}

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17 pages, latex

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