Weingarten surfaces arising from soliton theory

Abstract

In this work we presented a method for constructing surfaces in associated with the symmetries of Gauss-Mainardi-Codazzi equations. We show that among these surfaces the sphere has a unique role. Under constant gauge transformations all integrable equations are mapped to a sphere. Furthermore we prove that all compact surfaces generated by symmetries of the sine-Gordon equation are homeomorphic to sphere. We also construct some Weingarten surfaces arising from the deformations of sine-Gordon, sinh-Gordon, nonlinear Schrödinger and modified Korteweg-de Vries equations.