Riemannian Manifolds with Diagonal Metric. The Lamé and Bourlet Systems

Abstract

We discuss a Lie algebraic and differential geometry construction of solutions to some multidimensional nonlinear integrable systems describing diagonal metrics on Riemannian manifolds, in particular those of zero and constant curvature. Here some special solutions to the Lamé and Bourlet type equations, determining by n arbitrary functions of one variable are obtained in an explicit form. For the case when the sum of the diagonal elements of the metric is a constant, these solutions are expressed as a product of the Jacobi elliptic functions and are determined by 2n arbitrary constants.

LaTeX file, 22 pages, to appear in the proceedings of the international conference "Selected Topics of Theoretical and Modern Mathematical Physics (SIMI-96)", September 22-29, 1996, Tbilisi, Georgia