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Moving null curves and integrability

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems 2024-01-24 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We study the null curves and their motion in a 33-dimensional flat space-time M3M_{3}. We show that when the motion of null curves forms two surfaces in M3M_{3} the integrability conditions lead to the well-known AKNS hierarchy. In this case we obtain all the geometrical quantities of the surfaces arising from the whole hierarchy but we particulary focus on the surfaces of the MKdV and KdV equations. We obtain one- and two-soliton surfaces associated to the MKdV equation and show that the Gauss and mean curvatures of these surfaces develop singularities in finite time. We show that the tetrad vectors on the curves satisfy the spin vector equation in the ferromagnetism model of Heisenberg.

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@article{arxiv.2401.12841,
  title  = {Moving null curves and integrability},
  author = {Metin Gürses and Asli Pekcan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.12841},
  year   = {2024}
}

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16 pages

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