Quaternionic representation of the moving frame for surfaces in Euclidean three-space and Lax pair 外文参考文献.docVIP

QUATERNIONICREPRESENTATIONOFTHEMOVINGFRAME FORSURFACESINEUCLIDEANTHREE-SPACE ANDLAXPAIR PAULBRACKEN Received 5October 2003 and inrevised form 20October 2003 The moving frame and associated Gauss-Codazzi equations for surfaces inthree-space are introduced. Aquaternionic representation isusedtoidentifytheGauss-Weingarten equation withaparticular Laxrepresentation. Severalexamples aregiven,suchasthecaseofconstant mean curvature. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classi?cation: 35A99, 53A05. Thestudyofsurfacesinthree-andhigher-dimensional spaceshasseenaresurgence of interest recently due to var