Integrability and Diffeomorphisms on Target Space

We briefly review the concepts of generalized zero curvature conditions and integrability in higher dimensions, where integrability in this context is related to the existence of infinitely many conservation laws. Under certain assumptions, it turns out that these conservation laws are, in fact, gen...

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Main Authors: Christoph Adam, Joaquin Sanchez-Guillen, Andrzej Wereszczynski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Academy of Science of Ukraine 2007-12-01
Series:Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
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Online Access:http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA/2007/123/
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Summary:We briefly review the concepts of generalized zero curvature conditions and integrability in higher dimensions, where integrability in this context is related to the existence of infinitely many conservation laws. Under certain assumptions, it turns out that these conservation laws are, in fact, generated by a class of geometric target space transformations, namely the volume-preserving diffeomorphisms. We classify the possible conservation laws of field theories for the case of a three-dimensional target space. Further, we discuss some explicit examples.
ISSN:1815-0659