The nonlinear Schrodinger equation is derived in a general intrinsic geometric setting involving a normal congruence originally investigated by Marris and Passman in 1969 in a hydrodynamical context. Geometric properties of members of the normal congruence are adduced and an intrinsic representation of the auto-Backlund transformation is obtained for the nonlinear Schrodinger equation. [References: 33]
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