A survey of Nambu-Poisson geometry.
Affine spheres: Discretization via duality relations.
Algebro-geometric solutions of the Camassa-Holm hierarchy.
We provide a detailed treatment of the Camassa-Holm (CH) hierarchy with special emphasis on its algebro-geometric solutions. In analogy to other completely integrable hierarchies of soliton equations such as the KdV or AKNS hierarchies, the CH hierarchy is recursively constructed by means of a basic polynomial formalism invoking a spectral parameter. Moreover, we study Dubrovin-type equations for auxiliary divisors and associated trace formulas, consider the corresponding algebro-geometric initial...
Compatible flat metrics.
Contact integrable extensions and differential coverings for the generalized (2 + 1)-dimensional dispersionless Dym equation
The method of contact integrable extensions is used to find new differential coverings for the generalized (2 + 1)-dimensional dispersionless Dym equation and corresponding Bäcklund transformations.
Distribution laws for integrable eigenfunctions
We determine the asymptotics of the joint eigenfunctions of the torus action on a toric Kähler variety. Such varieties are models of completely integrable systems in complex geometry. We first determine the pointwise asymptotics of the eigenfunctions, which show that they behave like Gaussians centered at the corresponding classical torus. We then show that there is a universal Gaussian scaling limit of the distribution function near its center. We also determine the limit...
Equivalence of holonomic differential equations.
Existence of permanent and breaking waves for a shallow water equation : a geometric approach
The existence of global solutions and the phenomenon of blow-up of a solution in finite time for a recently derived shallow water equation are studied. We prove that the only way a classical solution could blow-up is as a breaking wave for which we determine the exact blow-up rate and, in some cases, the blow-up set. Using the correspondence between the shallow water equation and the geodesic flow on the manifold of diffeomorphisms of the line endowed with a weak Riemannian structure, we give sufficient...
-manifolds and integrable systems of hydrodynamic type
We investigate the role of Hertling-Manin condition on the structure constants of an associative commutative algebra in the theory of integrable systems of hydrodynamic type. In such a framework we introduce the notion of -manifold with compatible connection generalizing a structure introduced by Manin.
Geometric realizations of bi-Hamiltonian completely integrable systems.
Hypersurface geometry and Hamiltonian systems of hydrodynamic type.
Kink solutions of the binormal flow
I shall present some recent work in collaboration with S. Gutierrez on the characterization of all selfsimilar solutions of the binormal flow : which preserve the length parametrization. Above is a curve in , the arclength parameter, and denote the temporal variable. This flow appeared for the first time in the work of Da Rios (1906) as a crude approximation to the evolution of a vortex filament under Euler equation, and it is intimately related to the focusing cubic nonlinear Schrödinger...
Minimal surfaces via loop groups.
Modèles locaux de structures de Poisson singulières en dimension 3
Nambu-Poisson structures and their foliations.
Nondegenerate systems and generic properties of the integrable Hamiltonian systems
On some integrable cases in surface theory
On the compatible weakly nonlocal Poisson brackets of hydrodynamic type.
On the integrability of the generalized Yang-Mills system
We consider a hamiltonian system which, in a special case and under the gauge group SU(2), can be considered as a reduction of the Yang-Mills field equations. We prove explicitly, using the Lax spectral curve technique and the van Moerbeke-Mumford method, that the flows generated by the constants of motion are straight lines on the Jacobi variety of a genus two Riemann surface.
On the mobility and efficiency of mechanical systems
It is shown that self-locomotion is possible for a body in Euclidian space, provided its dynamics corresponds to a non-quadratic Hamiltonian, and that the body contains at least 3 particles. The efficiency of the driver of such a system is defined. The existence of an optimal (most efficient) driver is proved.