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In this article we consider geometrical interpretations of the two-dimensional affine Toda equations for a compact simple Lie group G. These equations originated from the work of Toda [33],[34] over 25 years ago on vibrations of lattices, and they have received considerable attention from both pure and applied mathematicians particularly over the last 15 years. (For the original context of the ideas the reader is referred to [35], [27] and [1] and for a survey of recent work to [29] and [21]).
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Bolton, J., Woodward, L.M. (1994). The affine Toda equations and minimal surfaces. In: Fordy, A.P., Wood, J.C. (eds) Harmonic Maps and Integrable Systems. Aspects of Mathematics, vol E 23. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-14092-4_4
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