Tzitzeica equation

The Tzitzeica equation is a nonlinear partial differential equation devised by Gheorghe Țițeica in 1907 in the study of differential geometry, describing surfaces of constant affine curvature.[1] The Tzitzeica equation has also been used in nonlinear physics, being an integrable 1+1 dimensional Lorentz invariant system.[2]

u_{xy}=\exp(u)-\exp(-2*u).

On substituting

w(x, y) = exp(u(x, y))

the equation becomes

 w(x, y)_{y, x}*w(x, y)-w(x, y)_{x}*w(x, y)_{y}-w(x, y)^3+1 = 0

Obtain the traveling solution of the original equation by the reverse transformation u(x,y)=ln(w(x,y)).


References

  1. G. Tzitz´eica, “Geometric infinitesimale-sur une nouvelle classes de surfaces,”Comptes Rendus de l’Acad´emie des Sciences, vol. 144, pp. 1257–1259, 1907.
  2. Andrei D. Polyanin,Valentin F. Zaitsev, HANDBOOK OF NONLINEAR PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS, SECOND EDITION p540-542 CRC PRESS

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