1994/07/27 by Adam Doliwa, Paolo Maria Santini · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #nlin.SI #solv-int
paper · pdf · doi:10.1063/1.531119
published as J. Math. Phys. 36 (1995) 1259 · LaTeX file, 14 pages + 4 figures
arxiv created 1994/07/27 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
We show that the following elementary geometric properties of the motion of a discrete (i.e. piecewise linear) curve select the integrable dynamics of the Ablowitz-Ladik hierarchy of evolution equations: i) the set of points describing the discrete curve lie on the sphere S3, ii) the distance between any two subsequant points does not vary in time, iii) the dynamics does not depend explicitly on the radius of the sphere. These results generalize to a discrete context our previous work on continuous curves.