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Soliton Hierarchies Constructed from Involutions

Differential Geometry 2010-10-28 v1

Abstract

We introduce two families of soliton hierarchies: the twisted hierarchies associated to symmetric spaces. The Lax pairs of these two hierarchies are Laurent polynomials in the spectral variable. Our constructions gives a hierarchy of commuting flows for the generalized sine-Gordon equation (GSGE), which is the Gauss-Codazzi equation for n-dimensional submanifolds in Euclidean (2n-1)-space with constant sectional curvature -1. In fact, the GSGE is the first order system associated to a twisted Grassmannian system. We also study symmetries for the GSGE.

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@article{arxiv.1010.5596,
  title  = {Soliton Hierarchies Constructed from Involutions},
  author = {Chuu-Lian Terng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.5596},
  year   = {2010}
}
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