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Unitarily-invariant integrable systems and geometric curve flows in $SU(n+1)/U(n)$ and $SO(2n)/U(n)$

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems 2018-05-02 v4 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Bi-Hamiltonian hierarchies of soliton equations are derived from geometric non-stretching (inelastic) curve flows in the Hermitian symmetric spaces SU(n+1)/U(n)SU(n+1)/U(n) and SO(2n)/U(n)SO(2n)/U(n). The derivation uses Hasimoto variables defined by a moving parallel frame along the curves. As main results, new integrable multi-component versions of the Sine-Gordon (SG) equation and the modified Korteveg-de Vries (mKdV) equation, as well as a novel nonlocal multi-component version of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation are obtained, along with their bi-Hamiltonian structures and recursion operators. These integrable systems are unitarily invariant and correspond to geometric curve flows given by a non-stretching wave map and a mKdV analog of a non-stretching Schr\"odinger map in the case of the SG and mKdV systems, and a generalization of the vortex filament bi-normal equation in the case of the NLS systems.

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@article{arxiv.1408.5290,
  title  = {Unitarily-invariant integrable systems and geometric curve flows in $SU(n+1)/U(n)$ and $SO(2n)/U(n)$},
  author = {Ahmed M. G. Ahmed and Stephen C. Anco and Esmaeel Asadi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.5290},
  year   = {2018}
}

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32 pages. Typos fixed. To appear in J. Phys. A