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]

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

On substituting

${\displaystyle w(x,y)=\exp(u(x,y))}$

the equation becomes

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

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

References

1. G. Tzitzeica, “Geometrie infinitesimale-sur une nouvelle classes de surfaces,”Comptes Rendus de l’Academie 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

Further reading

• Graham W. Griffiths William E.Shiesser Traveling Wave Analysis of Partial Differential Equations Academy Press
• Richard H. Enns George C. McCGuire, Nonlinear Physics Birkhauser,1997
• Inna Shingareva, Carlos Lizárraga-Celaya,Solving Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations with Maple Springer.
• Eryk Infeld and George Rowlands,Nonlinear Waves,Solitons and Chaos,Cambridge 2000
• Saber Elaydi,An Introduction to Difference Equationns, Springer 2000
• Dongming Wang, Elimination Practice,Imperial College Press 2004
• David Betounes, Partial Differential Equations for Computational Science: With Maple and Vector Analysis Springer, 1998 ISBN 9780387983004
• George Articolo Partial Differential Equations & Boundary Value Problems with Maple V Academic Press 1998 ISBN 9780120644759