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Integrable Flows for Starlike Curves in Centroaffine Space

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems 2013-03-07 v1 Analysis of PDEs Differential Geometry

Abstract

We construct integrable hierarchies of flows for curves in centroaffine R3{\mathbb R}^3 through a natural pre-symplectic structure on the space of closed unparametrized starlike curves. We show that the induced evolution equations for the differential invariants are closely connected with the Boussinesq hierarchy, and prove that the restricted hierarchy of flows on curves that project to conics in RP2{\mathbb{RP}}^2 induces the Kaup-Kuperschmidt hierarchy at the curvature level.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1303.1259,
  title  = {Integrable Flows for Starlike Curves in Centroaffine Space},
  author = {Annalisa Calini and Thomas Ivey and Gloria Mari Beffa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.1259},
  year   = {2013}
}
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