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Let $R^{n+1, n}$ be the vector space $R^{2n+1}$ equipped with the bilinear form $(X,Y)=X^t C_n Y$ of index $n$, where $C_n= sum_{i=1}^{2n+1} (-1)^{n+i-1} e_{i, 2n+2-i}$. A smooth $gamma: Rto R^{n+1,n}$ is {it isotropic} if $gamma, gamma_x, ldots, gamma_x^{(2n)}$ are linearly independent and the span of $gamma, ldots, gamma_x^{(n-1)}$ is isotropic. Given an isotropic curve, we show that there is a unique up to translation parameter such that $(gamma_x^{(n)}, gamma_x^{(n)})=1$ (we call such parameter the isotropic parameter) and there also exists a natural moving frame. In this paper, we consider two sequences of curve flows on the space of isotropic curves parametrized by isotropic parameter. We show that differential invariants of these isotropic curves satisfy Drinfeld-Sokolovs KdV type soliton hierarchies associated to the affine Kac-Moody algebra $hat B_n^{(1)}$ and $hat A_{2n}^{(2)}$ Then we use techniques from soliton theory to construct bi-Hamiltonian structure, conservation laws, Backlund transformations and permutability formulas for these curve flows.
Langer and Perline proved that if x is a solution of the geometric Airy curve flow on R^n then there exists a parallel normal frame along x(. ,t) for each t such that the corresponding principal curvatures satisfy the (n-1) component modified KdV (vmKdV_n). They also constructed higher order curve flows whose principal curvatures are solutions of the higher order flows in the vmKdV_n soliton hierarchy. In this paper, we write down a Poisson structure on the space of curves in R^n parametrized by the arc-length, show that the geometric Airy curve flow is Hamiltonian, write down a sequence of commuting Hamiltonians, and construct Backlund transformations and explicit soliton solutions.
We construct a sequence of commuting central affine curve flows on $R^nbackslash 0$ invariant under the action of $SL(n,R)$ and prove the following results: (a) The central affine curvatures of a solution of the j-th central affine curve flow is a solution of the j-th flow of Gelfand-Dickey (GD$_n$) hierarchy on the space of n-th order differential operators. (b) We use the solution of the Cauchy problems of the GD$_n$ flow to solve the Cauchy problems for the central affine curve flows with periodic initial data and also with initial data whose central affine curvatures are rapidly decaying. (c) We obtain a bi-Hamiltonian structure for the central affine curve flow hierarchy and prove that it arises naturally from the Poisson structures of certain co-adjoint orbits. (d) We construct Backlund transformations, infinitely many families of explicit solutions and give a permutability formula for these curve flows.
A diagonal metric sum_{i=1}^n g_{ii} dx_i^2 is termed Guichard_k if sum_{i=1}^{n-k}g_{ii}-sum_{i=n-k+1}^n g_{ii}=0. A hypersurface in R^{n+1} is isothermic_k if it admits line of curvature co-ordinates such that its induced metric is Guichard_k. Isothermic_1 surfaces in R^3 are the classical isothermic surfaces in R^3. Both isothermic_k hypersurfaces in R^{n+1} and Guichard_k orthogonal co-ordinate systems on R^n are invariant under conformal transformations. A sequence of n isothermic_k hypersurfaces in R^{n+1} (Guichard_k orthogonal co-ordinate systems on R^n resp.) is called a Combescure sequence if the consecutive hypersurfaces (orthogonal co-ordinate systems resp.) are related by Combescure transformations. We give a correspondence between Combescure sequences of Guichard_k orthogonal co-ordinate systems on R^n and solutions of the O(2n-k,k)/O(n)xO(n-k,k)-system, and a correspondence between Combescure sequences of isothermic_k hypersurfaces in R^{n+1} and solutions of the O(2n+1-k,k)/O(n+1)xO(n-k,k)-system, both being integrable systems. Methods from soliton theory can therefore be used to construct Christoffel, Ribaucour, and Lie transforms, and to describe the moduli spaces of these geometric objects and their loop group symmetries.
Given a hypersurface $M$ of null scalar curvature in the unit sphere $mathbb{S}^n$, $nge 4$, such that its second fundamental form has rank greater than 2, we construct a singular scalar-flat hypersurface in $Rr^{n+1}$ as a normal graph over a truncated cone generated by $M$. Furthermore, this graph is 1-stable if the cone is strictly 1-stable.
As is well known, self-similar solutions to the mean curvature flow, including self-shrinkers, translating solitons and self-expanders, arise naturally in the singularity analysis of the mean curvature flow. Recently, Guo cite{Guo} proved that $n$-dimensional compact self-shrinkers in $mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ with scalar curvature bounded from above or below by some constant are isometric to the round sphere $mathbb{S}^n(sqrt{n})$, which implies that $n$-dimensional compact self-shrinkers in $mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ with constant scalar curvature are isometric to the round sphere $mathbb{S}^n(sqrt{n})$(see also cite{Hui1}). Complete classifications of $n$-dimensional translating solitons in $mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ with nonnegative constant scalar curvature and of $n$-dimensional self-expanders in $mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ with nonnegative constant scalar curvature were given by Mart{i}n, Savas-Halilaj and Smoczykcite{MSS} and Ancari and Chengcite{AC}, respectively. In this paper we give complete classifications of $n$-dimensional complete self-shrinkers in $mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ with nonnegative constant scalar curvature. We will also give alternative proofs of the classification theorems due to Mart{i}n, Savas-Halilaj and Smoczyk cite{MSS} and Ancari and Chengcite{AC}.