Integrability, Self-Duality, and Twistor Theory (London Mathematical Society Monographs)
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Book Description
Many of the familiar integrable systems of equations are symmetry reductions of self-duality equations on a metric or on a Yang-Mills connection. For example, the Korteweg-de Vries and non-linear Schrodinger equations are reductions of the self-dual Yang-Mills equation. This book explores in
detail the connections between self-duality and integrability, and also the application of twistor techniques to integrable systems. It supports two central theories: that the symmetries of self-duality equations provide a natural classification scheme for integrable systems; and that twistor theory
provides a uniform geometric framework for the study of Backlund transformations, the inverse scattering method, and other such general constructions of integrability theory. The book will be useful to researchers and graduate students in mathematical physics.
Integrability, Self-Duality, and Twistor Theory (London Mathematical Society Monographs),L. Mason,N. M. J. Woodhouse,Oxford University Press, USA,0198534981,Applied,Differential Equations,Duality theory (Mathematics),Mathematical Physics,Mathematics,Nuclear Physics,Science/Mathematics,Twistor theory,Yang-Mills theory,Algebraic geometry,Mathematics for scientists & engineers,Mathematics | Applied Mathematics,PHYSICS,Science / Nuclear Physics
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