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Methods and Applications of Analysis
Volume 14 (2007)
Number 3
Deformation of Surfaces Induced by Motions of Curves in Higherdimensional Similarity Geometries
Pages: 273 – 286
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4310/MAA.2007.v14.n3.a5
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Abstract
In this paper, we study deformation of surfaces induced by adding one and two extra space variables to the motions of space curves in higher-dimensional similarity geometries. It is shown that the 2+1- and 3+1-dimensional nonlinear evolution equations including the 2+1-dimensional mKdV equation and a generalization to the mKdV-Burgers system arise from such motions.
Keywords
Similarity geometry, invariant geometric flow, deformation of surface, integrable system
2010 Mathematics Subject Classification
37K25, 53A55, 53C44
Published 1 January 2007