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On integrability of Weingarten surfaces: a forgotten class

Hynek Baran and Michal Marvan

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Rediscovered by a systematic search, a forgotten class of integrable surfaces is shown to disprove the Finkel–Wu conjecture. The associated integrable nonlinear partial differential equation

z_{yy} + (1/z)_{xx} + 2 = 0

possesses a zero curvature representation, a third-order symmetry and a nonlocal transformation to the sine-Gordon equation phiξη = sin phi. We leave open the problem of finding a Bäcklund autotransformation and a recursion operator that would produce a local hierarchy.


PACS

02.30.Jr Partial differential equations

05.45.Yv Solitons

02.30.Ik Integrable systems

02.30.Tb Operator theory

MSC

35Q51 Solitons (See also 37K40)

35Q53 KdV-like equations (Korteweg-de Vries, Burgers, sine-Gordon, sinh-Gordon, etc.) (See also 37K10)

Subjects

Mathematical physics

Statistical physics and nonlinear systems

Dates

Issue 40 (9 October 2009)

Received 30 January 2009, in final form 26 May 2009

Published 16 September 2009



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