Integrated Lax formalism for principal chiral model

Abstract

By solving the first-order algebraic field equations which arise in the dual formulation of the D=2 principal chiral model (PCM) we construct an integrated Lax formalism built explicitly on the dual fields of the model rather than the currents. The Lagrangian of the dual scalar field theory is also constructed. Furthermore we present the first-order partial differential equation (PDE) system for an exponential parametrization of the solutions and discuss the integrability of this system. (C) 2010 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3480667]