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Solitons and admissible families of rational curves in twistor spaces
It is well known that twistor constructions can be used to analyse and to
obtain solutions to a wide class of integrable systems. In this article we
express the standard twistor constructions in terms of the concept of an
admissible family of rational curves in certain twistor spaces. Examples of of
such families can be obtained as subfamilies of a simple family of rational
curves using standard operations of algebraic geometry. By examination of
several examples, we give evidence that this construction is the basis of the
construction of many of the most important solitonic and algebraic solutions to
various integrable differential equations of mathematical physics. This is
presented as evidence for a principal that, in some sense, all soliton-like
solutions should be constructable in this way.Comment: 15 pages, Abstract and introduction rewritten to clarify the
objectives of the paper. This is the final version which will appear in
Nonlinearit
Ruled Laguerre minimal surfaces
A Laguerre minimal surface is an immersed surface in the Euclidean space
being an extremal of the functional \int (H^2/K - 1) dA. In the present paper,
we prove that the only ruled Laguerre minimal surfaces are up to isometry the
surfaces R(u,v) = (Au, Bu, Cu + D cos 2u) + v (sin u, cos u, 0), where A, B, C,
D are fixed real numbers. To achieve invariance under Laguerre transformations,
we also derive all Laguerre minimal surfaces that are enveloped by a family of
cones. The methodology is based on the isotropic model of Laguerre geometry. In
this model a Laguerre minimal surface enveloped by a family of cones
corresponds to a graph of a biharmonic function carrying a family of isotropic
circles. We classify such functions by showing that the top view of the family
of circles is a pencil.Comment: 28 pages, 9 figures. Minor correction: missed assumption (*) added to
Propositions 1-2 and Theorem 2, missed case (nested circles having nonempty
envelope) added in the proof of Pencil Theorem 4, missed proof that the arcs
cut off by the envelope are disjoint added in the proof of Lemma
Large-small dualities between periodic collapsing/expanding branes and brane funnels
We consider space and time dependent fuzzy spheres arising in
intersections in IIB string theory and collapsing D(2p)-branes in
IIA string theory.
In the case of , where the periodic space and time-dependent solutions
can be described by Jacobi elliptic functions, there is a duality of the form
to which relates the space and time dependent solutions.
This duality is related to complex multiplication properties of the Jacobi
elliptic functions. For funnels, the description of the periodic space
and time dependent solutions involves the Jacobi Inversion problem on a
hyper-elliptic Riemann surface of genus 3. Special symmetries of the Riemann
surface allow the reduction of the problem to one involving a product of genus
one surfaces. The symmetries also allow a generalisation of the to duality. Some of these considerations extend to the case of the
fuzzy .Comment: Latex, 50 pages, 2 figures ; v2 : a systematic typographical error
corrected + minor change
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