On affine Sawada–Kotera equation

It is shown that motion of plane curves in affine geometry induces naturally the Sawada–Kotera hierarchy. The affine Sawada–Kotera equation is obtained in view of the equivalence of equations for the curvature and graph of plane curves when the curvature satisfies the Sawada–Kotera equation. The affine Sawada–Kotera equation can be viewed as an affine version of the WKI equation since they have similarity properties, such as they have loop-solitons, they are solved by the AKNS-scheme and are obtained by choosing the normal velocity to be the derivative of the curvature with respect to the arc-length. Its symmetry reductions to ordinary differential equations corresponding to an one-dimensional optimal system of its Lie symmetry algebras are discussed.