Poisson brackets associated to the conformal geometry of curves

Marí Beffa, G.

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-04-03589-5

Poisson brackets associated to the conformal geometry of curves
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Abstract:

In this paper we present an invariant moving frame, in the group theoretical sense, along curves in the Möbius sphere. This moving frame will describe the relationship between all conformal differential invariants for curves that appear in the literature. Using this frame we first show that the Kac-Moody Poisson bracket on $Lo(n+1,1)^\ast$ can be Poisson reduced to the space of conformal differential invariants of curves. The resulting bracket will be the conformal analogue of the Adler–Gel’fand–Dikii bracket. Secondly, a conformally invariant flow of curves induces naturally an evolution on the differential invariants of the flow. We give the conditions on the invariant flow ensuring that the induced evolution is Hamiltonian with respect to the reduced Poisson bracket. Because of a certain parallelism with the Euclidean case we study what we call Frenet and natural cases. We comment on the implications for completely integrable systems, and describe conformal analogues of the Hasimoto transformation.

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