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Special Isothermic Surfaces and Solitons

Emilio Musso, Lorenzo Nicolodi

math.DGarXiv:math/0108170

Abstract

We establish a correspondence between Darboux's special isothermic surfaces of type (A,0,C,D) and the solutions of the second order PDE : uΔ(u)-|∇(u)|2+Φ4=s, s ∈ R. We then use the classical Darboux transformation for isothermic surfaces to construct a Bäcklund transformation for this equation and prove a superposition formula for its solutions. As an application we discuss 1 and 2-soliton solutions and the corresponding surfaces.

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