AN INTEGRABLE SYSTEM OF PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS ON THE SPECIAL LINEAR GROUP

We give an intrinsic construction of a coupled nonlinear system consisting of two first-order partial differential equations in two dependent and two independent variables which is determined by a hyperbolic structure on the complex special linear group regarded as a real Lie group G. Despite the fact that the system is not Darboux semi-integrable at first order, the construction of a family of solutions depending upon two arbitrary functions, each of one variable, is reduced to a system of ordinary differential equations on the 1-jets. The ordinary differential equations in question are of Lie type and associated with G.