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    Integrable equations of the dispersionless Hirota type and hypersurfaces in the Lagrangian Grassmannian

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    We investigate integrable second order equations of the form F(u_{xx}, u_{xy}, u_{yy}, u_{xt}, u_{yt}, u_{tt})=0. Familiar examples include the Boyer-Finley equation, the potential form of the dispersionless Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation, the dispersionless Hirota equation, etc. The integrability is understood as the existence of infinitely many hydrodynamic reductions. We demonstrate that the natural equivalence group of the problem is isomorphic to Sp(6), revealing a remarkable correspondence between differential equations of the above type and hypersurfaces of the Lagrangian Grassmannian. We prove that the moduli space of integrable equations of the dispersionless Hirota type is 21-dimensional, and the action of the equivalence group Sp(6) on the moduli space has an open orbit.Comment: 32 page

    Systems of conservation laws with third-order Hamiltonian structures

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    We investigate nn-component systems of conservation laws that possess third-order Hamiltonian structures of differential-geometric type. The classification of such systems is reduced to the projective classification of linear congruences of lines in Pn+2\mathbb{P}^{n+2} satisfying additional geometric constraints. Algebraically, the problem can be reformulated as follows: for a vector space WW of dimension n+2n+2, classify nn-tuples of skew-symmetric 2-forms Aα∈Λ2(W)A^{\alpha} \in \Lambda^2(W) such that ϕβγAβ∧Aγ=0, \phi_{\beta \gamma}A^{\beta}\wedge A^{\gamma}=0, for some non-degenerate symmetric ϕ\phi.Comment: 31 page

    Singer quadrangles

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