Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
The Idea of a Lax Pair-Part II: Continuum Wave Equations. |
| Authors: |
Krishnaswami, Govind S.1 (AUTHOR) govind@cmi.ac.in, Vishnu, T. R.1 (AUTHOR) vishnu@cmi.ac.in |
| Source: |
Resonance: Journal of Science Education. Feb2021, Vol. 26 Issue 2, p257-274. 18p. |
| Subject Terms: |
Wave equation, Differential operators, Conserved quantity, Linear equations, Water waves, Conservation laws (Mathematics), Lax pair |
| Abstract: |
In Part I [1], we introduced the idea of a Lax pair and explained how it could be used to obtain conserved quantities for systems of particles. Here, we extend these ideas to continuum mechanical systems of fields such as the linear wave equation for vibrations of a stretched string and the Kortewegde Vries (KdV) equation for water waves. Unlike the Lax matrices for systems of particles, here Lax pairs are differential operators. A key idea is to view the Lax equation as a compatibility condition between a pair of linear equations. This is used to obtain a geometric reformulation of the Lax equation as the condition for a certain curvature to vanish. This 'zero curvature representation' then leads to a recipe for finding (typically an infinite sequence of) conserved quantities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: |
Education Research Complete |
