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Reductions of Gauss-Codazzi equations

Differential Geometry 2017-10-16 v1 Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems

Abstract

We prove that conformally parametrized surfaces in Euclidean space \Rcubec\Rcubec of curvature cc admit a symmetry reduction of their Gauss-Codazzi equations whose general solution is expressed with the sixth Painlev\'e function. Moreover, it is shown that the two known solutions of this type (Bonnet 1867, Bobenko, Eitner and Kitaev 1997) can be recovered by such a reduction.

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@article{arxiv.1601.04300,
  title  = {Reductions of Gauss-Codazzi equations},
  author = {Robert Conte and A. Michel Grundland},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.04300},
  year   = {2017}
}

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25 pages, to appear, Studies in applied mathematics

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