Taimanov’s surface evolution and Bäcklund transformations for curves

Garay, Oscar; Langer, Joel

doi:10.1090/S1088-4173-99-00043-0

Taimanov’s surface evolution and Bäcklund transformations for curves
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by Oscar Garay and Joel Langer

Conform. Geom. Dyn. 3 (1999), 37-49

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S1088-4173-99-00043-0

Published electronically: March 25, 1999

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Abstract:

Taimanov’s evolution of conformally parametrized surfaces in Euclidean space by the modified Novikov-Veselov equation is interpreted here (in the revolution case) using hyperbolic geometry and Bäcklund transformations for curves.

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