Integrable motion of curves associated with the Fokas-Lenells equation and related spin system

Abstract

In this article, we study the gauge equivalence between the integrable Fokas- Lenells equation (FLE) and an associated spin equation through a gauge transformation and the zero curvature condition. We also construct the Lax pair for the generalized spin equation to confirm its integrability. Further, by mapping a generalized spin system on a moving space curve in R3, we show its geometrical equivalence with the FLE. In particular, the associated evolution equations for the curvature and torsion of the space curve are shown to be equivalent to the FLE through a complicated complex transformation unlike the case of the well known Heisenberg spin equation and the nonlinear Schrödinger equation.