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January 19, 2012
Thursday, January 19
Analysis Seminar
Time: 13:30
Speaker: Alexander Odesskii (Brock University)
Title: "Integrable Lagrangians and modular forms"
Room: MC 106

Abstract: We investigate non-degenerate Lagrangians of the form f(ux,uy,ut)dxdydt such that the corresponding Euler-Lagrange equations (fux)x+(fuy)y+(fut)t=0 are integrable by the so-called method of hydrodynamic reductions. The integrability conditions, which constitute an involutive over-determined system of fourth order PDEs for the Lagrangian density f, are invariant under a 20-parameter group of Lie-point symmetries whose action on the moduli space of integrable Lagrangians has an open orbit. The density of the `master-Lagrangian' corresponding to this orbit is shown to be a modular form in three variables defined on a complex hyperbolic ball.