Abstract
In this Letter, we present an answer to the question posed by Marcel, Ovsienko and Roger in their paper. The Itô equation, modified dispersive water wave equation and modified dispersionless long wave equation are shown to be the geodesic flows with respect to an L2 metric on the semidirect product space Diffs(S1) ⊙ C∞(S1), where Diffs(S1) is the group of orientation-preserving Sobolev Hs diffeomorphisms of the circle. We also study the geodesic flows with respect to H1 metric. The geodesic flows in this case yield different integrable systems admitting nonlinear dispersion terms. These systems exhibit more general wave phenomena than usual integrable systems. Finally, we study an integrable geodesic flow on the extended Neveu-Schwarz space.
Original language | British English |
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Pages (from-to) | 311-328 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Journal | Letters in Mathematical Physics |
Volume | 52 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 2000 |
Keywords
- Bott-Virasoro group
- Diffeomorphism
- Geodesic flows
- Integrable systems