Integrable equations arising from motions of plane curves. II

Journal of Nonlinear Science

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 487-517

  Chou, K S ^a   Qu, C Z ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cole Hopf transformation; defocusing mKdV and Burgers equations; K(m; KdV; Klein geometry; Miura transformation; motion of curves; n) models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867946808     PISSN: 09388974     EISSN: 14321467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00332-003-0570-0     Document Type: Article

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