Isothermic surfaces in spaces of arbitrary dimension: Integrability, discretization, and Bäcklund transformations - A discrete Calapso equation

Studies in Applied Mathematics

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 85-137

  Schief, W K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

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Indexed keywords

ISOTHERMS; KORTEWEG-DE VRIES EQUATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

ARBITRARY DIMENSION; DISCRETIZATIONS; HOLOMORPHIC FUNCTIONS; INTEGRABILITY; KORTEWEG-DE VRIES-EQUATION; LAX PAIRS; MATRIX; NONLOCAL; SET-DOWN; SUPERPOSITION PRINCIPLE;

VECTORS;

EID: 0038785835     PISSN: 00222526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9590.00162     Document Type: Article

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