Poncelet Porism as an Integrable Aystem: from Jacobi to Hirota
Time: 2023-11-03
Published By: Wenqiong Li
Speaker(s): Alexei Zhedanov (Renmin University of China)
Time: 14:00-15:00 November 14, 2023
Venue: Room 29, Quan Zhai, BICMR
Poncelet porism is an example of one-dimensional discrete-time integrable system. We trace evolution of this problem focusing on contributions by Jacobi, Maxwell, Bertrand and Hirota. Relation to the Diriclet problem for the wave eqution is demonstrated.
