Yoshinori Machida

Monge-Ampere Systems with Lagrangian Pairs

The classes of Monge-Amp\`ere systems, decomposable and bi-decomposable Monge-Amp\`ere systems, including equations for improper affine spheres and hypersurfaces of constant Gauss-Kronecker curvature are introduced. They are studied by the clear geometric setting of Lagrangian contact structures, based on the existence of Lagrangian pairs in contact structures. We show that the Lagrangian pair is uniquely determined by such a bi-decomposable system up to the order, if the number of independent variables

The asymmetry on singularities of tangent surfaces in contact-cone Legendre-null duality

\geq 3

Singularities of tangent surfaces in Cartan’s split

. We remark that, in the case of three variables, each bi-decomposable system is generated by a non-degenerate three-form in the sense of Hitchin. It is shown that several classes of homogeneous Monge-Amp\`ere systems with Lagrangian pairs arise naturally in various geometries. Moreover we establish the upper bounds on the symmetry dimensions of decomposable and bi-decomposable Monge-Amp\`ere systems respectively in terms of the geometric structure and we show that these estimates are sharp (Proposition 4.2 and Theorem 5.3).