On Methods of Finding Bäcklund Transformations in Systems with More than Two Independent Variables

Abstract

Bäcklund transformations, which are relations among solutions of partial differential equations–usually nonlinear–have been found and applied mainly for systems with two independent variables. A few are known for equations like the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation [1], which has three independent variables, but they are rare. Wahlquist and Estabrook [2] discovered a systematic method for searching for Bäcklund transformations, using an auxiliary linear system called a prolongation structure. The integrability conditions for the prolongation structure are to be the original differential equation system, most of which systems have just two independent variables. This paper discusses how the Wahlquist-Estabrook method might be applied to systems with larger numbers of variables, with the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation as an example. The Zakharov-Shabat method is also discussed. Applications to other equations, such as the Davey-Stewartson and Einstein equation systems, are presented.     

Pseudodifferential Operators of Several Variables and Baker Functions

The KP hierarchy consists of an infinite system of nonlinear partial differential equations and is determined by Lax equations, which can be constructed using pseudodifferential operators. The KP hierarchy and the associated Lax equations can be generalized by using pseudodifferential operators of several variables. We construct Baker functions associated to those generalized Lax equations of several variables and prove some of the properties satisfied by such functions.     

Algebro-Geometric Solutions with Characteristics of a Nonlinear Partial Differential Equation with Three-Potential Functions

With the help of a simple Lie algebra, an isospectral Lax pair, whose feature presents decomposition of element (1, 2) into a linear combination in the temporal Lax matrix, is introduced for which a new integrable hierarchy of evolution equations is obtained, whose Hamiltonian structure is also derived from the trace identity in which contains a constant γ to be determined. In the paper, we obtain a general formula for computing the constant γ. The reduced equations of the obtained hierarchy are the generalized nonlinear heat equation containing three-potential functions, the mKdV equation and a generalized linear KdV equation. The algebro-geometric solutions (also called finite band solutions) of the generalized nonlinear heat equation are obtained by the use of theory on algebraic curves. Finally, two kinds of gauge transformations of the spatial isospectral problem are produced.     

Bäcklund transformations for chiral field equations

We give a general procedure to obtain Bäcklund transformations for nonlinear partial differential equations derived as compatibility conditions between some given generalized Lax pair of operators. We apply this technique to obtain a set of Bäcklund transformations for three-dimensional and axially symmetric two-dimensional chiral field equations.     

扩展齐次平衡法与Backlund变换

将求解非线性演化方程的齐次平衡法进行了扩展,使其包含一个任意函数.此改进方法可得到耦合KdV-Burgers方程、KdV-Burgers方程、Boussinesq方程和一般KdV方程等许多非线性演化方程的Backlund变换和新的精确解.     

Integrable discretisations for a class of nonlinear Schrödinger equations on Grassmann algebras

Integrable discretisations for a class of coupled (super) nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) type of equations are presented. The class corresponds to a Lax operator with entries in a Grassmann algebra. Elementary Darboux transformations are constructed. As a result, Grassmann generalisations of the Toda lattice and the NLS dressing chain are obtained. The compatibility (Bianchi commutativity) of these Darboux transformations leads to integrable Grassmann generalisations of the difference Toda and NLS equations. The resulting systems will have discrete Lax representations provided by the set of two consistent elementary Darboux transformations. For the two discrete systems obtained, initial value and initial-boundary problems are formulated.     

The Integrability of Lie-invariant Geometric Objects Generated by Ideals in the Grassmann Algebra

Abstract

We investigate closed ideals in the Grassmann algebra serving as bases of Lie-invariant geometric objects studied before by E.Cartan. Especially, the E.Cartan theory is enlarged for Lax integrable nonlinear dynamical systems to be treated in the frame work of the Wahlquist Estabrook prolongation structures on jet-manifolds and Cartan-Ehresmann connection theory on fibered spaces. General structure of integrable one-forms augmenting the two-forms associated with a closed ideal in the Grassmann algebra is studied in great detail. An effective Maurer-Cartan one-forms construction is suggested that is very useful for applications. As an example of application the developed Lie-invariant geometric object theory for the Burgers nonlinear dynamical system is considered having given rise to finding an explicit form of the associated Lax type representation.     

Lax表示的Kac—Moody代数结构

本文指出,非线性(演化)系统的广义Lax表示所取值的代数,即延拓代数y×D(λ),实质上是Kac-Moody代数。这里,y是一有限维李代数,D(λ)是谱参数λ的值域。本文并利用Dolan关于主手征模型Kac-Moody代数的实现,给出了一类1+1维非线性(演化)系统的Kac-Moody代数的实现。 关键词：     

Miura and auto-Backlund transformations for the q-deformed KP and q-deformed modified KP hierarchies

The Miura and anti-Miura transformations between the q-deformed KP and the q-deformed modified KP hierarchies are investigated in this paper. Then the auto-Backlund transformations for the q-deformed KP and q-deformed modified KP hierarchies are constructed through the combinations of the Miura and anti-Miura transformations. And the corresponding results are also generalized to the constrained cases. At last, some examples of Miura and auto-Backlund transformations are given.     

The Maupertuis Principle and Canonical Transformations of the Extended Phase Space

Abstract

We discuss some special classes of canonical transformations of the extended phase space, which relate integrable systems with a common Lagrangian submanifold. Various parametric forms of trajectories are associated with different integrals of motion, Lax equations, separated variables and action-angles variables. In this review we will discuss namely these induced transformations instead of the various parametric form of the geometric objects.     

Von mises- and crocco-type hydrodynamical transformations: Order reduction of nonlinear equations,construction of Bäcklund transformations and of new integrable equations

Broad classes of nonlinear equations of mathematical physics are described that admit order reduction by applying the von Mises transformation (with the unknown function used as a new independent variable and with a suitable partial derivative used as a new dependent variable) and by applying the Crocco transformation (with the first and second partial derivatives used as new independent and dependent variables, respectively). Associated Bäcklund transformations are constructed that connect evolution equations of general form (their special cases include Burgers, Korteweg-de Vries, and Harry Dym type equations and many other nonlinear equations of mathematical physics). Transformations are indicated that reduce the order of hydrodynamic-type equations of higher orders. The generalized Calogero equation and a number of other new integrable nonlinear equations, reducible to linear equations, are considered.     

Prolongation structure for nonlinear integrable couplings of a KdV soliton hierarchy

In this paper, a new nonlinear integrable coupling system of the soliton hierarchy is presented. From the Lax pairs, the coupled KdV equations are constructed successfully. Based on the prolongation method of Wahlquist and Estabrook, we study the prolongation structure of the nonlinear integrable couplings of the KdV equation.     

Covariant Prolongation Structure of Konno-Asai-Kakuhata Equation

Based upon the covariant prolongation structures theory, we construct the sl(2,R)×R(ρ) prolongation structure for Konno-Asai-Kakuhata equation. By taking two and one-dimensional prolongation spaces, we obtain the inverse scattering equations given by Konno et al. and the corresponding Riccati equation. The Bäcklund transformations are also presented.     

PROLONGATION STRUCTURE,BACKLUND TRAESFORKATION AND PRINCIPAL HOMOGENEOUS HILBERT PROBLEM IN GENERAL RELATIVITY+

We will briefly review the prolongation structure theory for nonlinear systems, such as nonlinear evolution equations and soli-ton equations, and its applications to the solutlon generating techniques for the gravitational fields with two commuting Killing vectors.     

Painleve Analysis and Symmetries of the Hirota–Satsuma Equation

Abstract

The singular manifold expansion of Weiss, Tabor and Carnevale [1] has been successfully applied to integrable ordinary and partial differential equations. They yield information such as Lax pairs, Bäcklund transformations, symmetries, recursion operators, pole dynamics, and special solutions. On the other hand, several recent developments have made the application of group theory to the solution of the differential equations more powerful then ever. More recently, Gibbon et. al. [2] revealed interrelations between the Painlevè property and Hirota’s bilinear method. And W. Strampp [3] hase shown that symmetries and recursion operators for an integrable nonlinear partial differential equation can be obtained from the Painlevè expansion. In this paper, it has been shown that the Hirota–Satsuma equation passes the Painlevé test given by Weiss et al. for nonlinear partial differential equations. Furthermore, the data obtained by the truncation technique is used to obtain the symmetries, recursion operators, some analytical solutions of the Hirota–Satsuma equation.     

CONNECTION THEORY OF FIBRE BUNDLE AND PROLONGATION STRUCTURES OF NONLINEAR EVOLUTION EQUATIONS

It is shown that the proper geometrical framework for the nonlinear evolution equations (NEEs) and the soliton equations Should be the fibre bundle theory, the principal bundle and its associated bundle and their connection theory. Based upon the requirement of covariance of the geometrical quantities, a covariant generic geometry theory for the prolongation strutures of the NEEs is proposed and the fundamental equations for the prolongation structures are presented. From the fundamental equations it immediately follows that the comections corresponding to these NEEs always flat but with torsion and the covariant formulae satisfied by the conservation quantities associated with these NEEs are obtained. The prolongation structure of the MKdV equation, as an example, is concretely worked out by means of the covariant theory of the prolongation structure presented in this paper.     

A geometrical setting for Lax equations associated to dynamical systems

We develop a geometrical framework for dealing with Lax equations associated to dynamical systems over a manifold M. We also show that this theory reproduces the global versions of Lax equations given before as well as the usual theory of reduced systems obtained from systems defined on Lie groups and with such group as a symmetry group.     

The hilbert problem for matrices and a new class of integrable equations

A series of new integrable nonlinear differential equations is derived as compatibility conditions between generalized Lax pairs of operators which are meromorphic functions of the spectral parameter on the Riemann surface S of genus 1. On employing the Hilbert problem for the surface S, a general method of integration of these equations is proposed. The method is applied to obtain soliton solutions for asymmetric chiral SU(2) theory.