Twisted hierarchies associated with the generalized sine-Gordon equation

Abstract

Twisted $U$- and twisted $U/K$-hierarchies are soliton hierarchies introduced by Terng to find higher flows of the generalized sine-Gordon equation. Twisted $\frac {O(J,J)}{O(J)\times O(J)}$-hierarchies are among the most important classes of twisted hierarchies. In this paper, interesting first and higher flows of twisted $\frac {O(J,J)}{O(J)\times O(J)}$-hierarchies are explicitly derived, the associated submanifold geometry is investigated and a unified treatment of the inverse scattering theory is provided.