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Integrable equations of the dispersionless Hirota type and hypersurfaces in the Lagrangian Grassmannian
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
On a class of second-order PDEs admitting partner symmetries
Recently we have demonstrated how to use partner symmetries for obtaining
noninvariant solutions of heavenly equations of Plebanski that govern heavenly
gravitational metrics. In this paper, we present a class of scalar second-order
PDEs with four variables, that possess partner symmetries and contain only
second derivatives of the unknown. We present a general form of such a PDE
together with recursion relations between partner symmetries. This general PDE
is transformed to several simplest canonical forms containing the two heavenly
equations of Plebanski among them and two other nonlinear equations which we
call mixed heavenly equation and asymmetric heavenly equation. On an example of
the mixed heavenly equation, we show how to use partner symmetries for
obtaining noninvariant solutions of PDEs by a lift from invariant solutions.
Finally, we present Ricci-flat self-dual metrics governed by solutions of the
mixed heavenly equation and its Legendre transform.Comment: LaTeX2e, 26 pages. The contents change: Exact noninvariant solutions
of the Legendre transformed mixed heavenly equation and Ricci-flat metrics
governed by solutions of this equation are added. Eq. (6.10) on p. 14 is
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Dispersive deformations of hydrodynamic reductions of 2D dispersionless integrable systems
We demonstrate that hydrodynamic reductions of dispersionless integrable
systems in 2+1 dimensions, such as the dispersionless Kadomtsev-Petviashvili
(dKP) and dispersionless Toda lattice (dTl) equations, can be deformed into
reductions of the corresponding dispersive counterparts. Modulo the Miura
group, such deformations are unique. The requirement that any hydrodynamic
reduction possesses a deformation of this kind imposes strong constraints on
the structure of dispersive terms, suggesting an alternative approach to the
integrability in 2+1 dimensions.Comment: 18 pages, section adde