Synopses & Reviews
This book explores the deep and fascinating connections that exist between a ubiquitous class of physically important waves known as solitons.
Review
"The book can serve as a very good introduction not only for students and young researchers but also for qualified scientists who would like to study nonlinear problems in connection with geometry of submanifolds. Work done in the last few years has proved that interactions between soliton theory and differential geometry are very profitable to both fields." Mathematical Reviews
Synopsis
This book describes the remarkable connections that exist between the classical differential geometry of surfaces and modern soliton theory. The authors also explore the extensive body of literature from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by such eminent geometers as Bianchi, Darboux, B cklund, and Eisenhart on transformations of privileged classes of surfaces which leave key geometric properties unchanged. Prominent amongst these are B cklund-Darboux transformations with their remarkable associated nonlinear superposition principles and importance in soliton theory.
Synopsis
Explores deep and fascinating connections between a ubiquitous class of physically important waves known as solitons.
Table of Contents
Preface; Acknowledgements; General introduction and outline; 1. Pseudospherical surfaces and the classical Bäcklund transformation: the Bianchi system; 2. The motion of curves and surfaces. soliton connections; 3. Tzitzeica surfaces: conjugate nets and the Toda Lattice scheme; 4. Hasimoto Surfaces and the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation: Geometry and associated soliton equations; 5. Isothermic surfaces: the Calapso and Zoomeron equations; 6. General aspects of soliton surfaces: role of gauge and reciprocal transfomations; 7. Bäcklund transformation and Darboux matrix connections; 8. Bianchi and Ernst systems: Bäcklund transformations and permutability theorems; 9. Projective-minimal and isothermal-asymptotic surfaces; A. The su(2)-so(3) isomorphism; B. CC-ideals; C. Biographies; Bibliography.