Integrable Lagrangians and modular forms
Abstract
We investigate non-degenerate Lagrangians of the form $$ \int f(u_x, u_y, u_t) dx dy dt $$ such that the corresponding Euler-Lagrange equations $ (f_{u_x})_x+ (f_{u_y})_y+ (f_{u_t})_t=0 $ are integrable by the method of hydrodynamic reductions. We demonstrate that the integrability conditions, which constitute an involutive over-determined system of fourth order PDEs for the Lagrangian density f, are invariant under a 20-parameter group of Lie-point symmetries whose action on the moduli space of integrable Lagrangians has an open orbit. The density of the `master-Lagrangian' corresponding to this orbit is shown to be a modular form in three variables defined on a complex hyperbolic ball. We demonstrate how the knowledge of the symmetry group allows one to linearise the integrability conditions.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- July 2007
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.0707.3433
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0707.3433
- Bibcode:
- 2007arXiv0707.3433F
- Keywords:
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- Nonlinear Sciences - Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems;
- High Energy Physics - Theory;
- Mathematics - Algebraic Geometry;
- Mathematics - Differential Geometry;
- Mathematics - Number Theory
- E-Print:
- 17 pages, latex