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Funktsional. Anal. i Prilozhen., 2009 Volume 43, Issue 1, Pages 3–21 (Mi faa2936)

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Discrete Nonlinear Hyperbolic Equations. Classification of Integrable Cases

V. E. Adlera, A. I. Bobenkob, Yu. B. Surisc

a L. D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences
b Institut für Mathematik, Technische Universität Berlin
c Zentrum Mathematik, Technische Universität München

Abstract: We consider discrete nonlinear hyperbolic equations on quad-graphs, in particular on $\mathbb{Z}^2$. The fields are associated with the vertices and an equation of the form $Q(x_1,x_2,x_3,x_4)=0$ relates four vertices of one cell. The integrability of equations is understood as 3D-consistency, which means that it is possible to impose equations of the same type on all faces of a three-dimensional cube so that the resulting system will be consistent. This allows one to extend these equations also to the multidimensional lattices $\mathbb{Z}^N$. We classify integrable equations with complex fields $x$ and polynomials $Q$ multiaffine in all variables. Our method is based on the analysis of singular solutions.

Keywords: integrability, quad-graph, multidimensional consistency, zero curvature representation, Bäcklund transformation, Bianchi permutability, Möbius transformation.

UDC: 517.962.24+517.965+517.957+517.958

Received: 04.06.2007

DOI: 10.4213/faa2936


 English version:
Functional Analysis and Its Applications, 2009, 43:1, 3–17

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