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New geometries associated with the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation

Pattern Formation and Solitons 2016-09-08 v1

Abstract

We apply our recent formalism establishing new connections between the geometry of moving space curves and soliton equations, to the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation (NLS). We show that any given solution of the NLS gets associated with three distinct space curve evolutions. The tangent vector of the first of these curves, the binormal vector of the second and the normal vector of the third, are shown to satisfy the integrable Landau-Lifshitz (LL) equation Su=S×Sss{\bf S}_u = {\bf S} \times {\bf S}_{ss}, (S2=1{\bf S}^2=1). These connections enable us to find the three surfaces swept out by the moving curves associated with the NLS. As an example, surfaces corresponding to a stationary envelope soliton solution of the NLS are obtained.

Cite

@article{arxiv.nlin/0111052,
  title  = {New geometries associated with the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation},
  author = {S. Murugesh and Radha Balakrishnan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0111052},
  year   = {2016}
}

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13 pages, 3 figures