Transformations of quadrilateral lattices

Motivated by the classical studies on transformations of conjugate nets, we develop the general geometric theory of transformations of their discrete analogs: the multidimensional quadrilateral lattices, i.e., lattices x:Z(N)--> R-M, N less than or equal to M, whose elementary quadrilaterals are...

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Autores: Doliwa, Adam, Santin, Maria Santin, Mañas Baena, Manuel Enrique
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2000
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/59689
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/59689
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:51-73
Integrable hierarchies
Coordinate systems
Hydrodynamic-type
Equation
Surfaces
Discretization
Física-Modelos matemáticos
Física matemática
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Sumario:Motivated by the classical studies on transformations of conjugate nets, we develop the general geometric theory of transformations of their discrete analogs: the multidimensional quadrilateral lattices, i.e., lattices x:Z(N)--> R-M, N less than or equal to M, whose elementary quadrilaterals are planar. Our investigation is based on the discrete analog of the theory of the rectilinear congruences, which we also present in detail. We study, in particular, the discrete analogs of the Laplace, Combescure, Levy, radial, and fundamental transformations and their interrelations. The composition of these transformations and their permutability is also investigated from a geometric point of view. The deep connections between "transformations" and "discretizations" is also investigated for quadrilateral lattices. We finally interpret these results within the <(partial derivative)over bar> formalism.