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.... the three wave equations (see David and Holm [5] for details) Some general references to literature on the integrable three wave equations is found in Whitham [6] Ablowitz and Haberman [7] Kaup [8, 9, 10] Zakharov and Manakov [11] Ablowitz and Segur [2] Newell [12] and Ablowitz and Clarkson [13]. The integrable Hamiltonian structure of the three wave equations is of course well known; we explore it from a somewhat novel point of view in what follows. As we will show, these equations possess a Lie Poisson structure in addition to the canonical Hamiltonian structure. One of the three wave ....

....Using n 1 independent symmetries the n wave system is ultimately reduced to quadratures. Solutions of the three wave system analyzed here are also traveling wave or stationary solutions of an integrable partial di#erential equation (for solution of the partial di#erential equation see Refs. [1, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13] ) In this sense the integrable structure outlined above generalizes to the structure of the partial di#erential equation. More generally, each integrable system of ordinary di#erential equations is associated with a hierarchy of evolution equations through (6.5) 6.6) by letting # # #x, ....

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....coincide, i.e. # = # = # , we have dx #. Thus # is an eigenvalue of (5) in L (R) The eigenfunction # with the normalization condition: 11) dx = 1, is called a bound state. If it is possible to prove that there is only a finite number of negative eigenvalues #n (see [AC91]) Define (k n = # #n ) For each kn , there exists a constant c n such that the eigenfunction #n (x) c n e knx as x # and satisfies (11) 3.2. Continuous spectra. If # 0 the solutions of (5) don t vanish at but we can prove a result similar to proposition 2: #. Then, for each ....

M. Ablowitz and P. Clarkson. Solitons, Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Inverse Scattering. Cambridge University Press, 1991.

....Index Terms Estimation, modulation, multiplexing, nonlinear circuits, signal detection, solitons. I. INTRODUCTION S OLITONS are stable, mode like solutions to a special class of nonlinear wave equations that can be solved analytically using a technique known as inverse scattering [1]. The inverse scattering transform can be interpreted as a nonlinear Fourier analysis for these systems, which decompose wave dynamics into a superposition of normal modes. These normal modes are solitons, and their particle like properties have been observed in a variety of natural phenomena ....

....the individual solitary waves approach one another, they begin to interact nonlinearly. However, after passing through one another, they regain their shape and speed with only a slight positional shift [17] There are many physical systems that support soliton solutions in a wide range of media [1], 3] 5] 9] These can be distributed systems with dynamics described by partial differential equations and whose solitons propagate through a Fig. 2. Two solitary wave solutions to the Toda lattice. bulk medium such as water, optical fiber, or plasma. They can also be lumped or cascade ....

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M. Ablowitz and A. Clarkson, Solitons, Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Inverse Scattering. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1991.

....with a ot, e third power law for self focusing collapse In order to estimate the size of the neighborhood of t0 where collapse is arrested a more careful analysis is required. Let B = iA so that B, B 2B a (38) The behavior of the solutions of (38) is characterized by the following result [1, 12]. Ay olutio of (38) atifyig lira B( 0 i aymptotic to kAi( for omc k. If Ikl 1 then a To apply this result we express k in terms of the parameters of the problem and note that A should agree with (34) in the domain ( fi0 6, when it is given by (32) Thus, k lA Ai(o) o B kAi( ....

M. Ablowitz and P. Clarkson. Solirons, Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Inverse Scatter- ing. Cambridge University Press, 1991.

....parts of the original dependent variable. The last and most complicated example involves a system of vector equations that needs to be split into equations for its scalar components in order to compute its Lie symmetries. 25 13.5.1. THE HARRY DYM EQUATION Consider the Harry Dym equation [1], u t u u xxx = 0: 13.17) Clearly, this is one equation with two independent variables and one dependent variable. The assignments of the variables are as follows: x 7 x[1] t 7 x[2] u 7 u[1] 13.18) This permits us to rewrite the equation (13.17) in a form accepted by the program ....

....components in order to compute its Lie symmetries. 25 13.5.1. THE HARRY DYM EQUATION Consider the Harry Dym equation [1] u t u u xxx = 0: 13.17) Clearly, this is one equation with two independent variables and one dependent variable. The assignments of the variables are as follows: x 7 x[1] ; t 7 x[2] u 7 u[1] 13.18) This permits us to rewrite the equation (13.17) in a form accepted by the program SYMMGRP. MAX; i.e. e1 : u[1, 0,1] u[1] 3 u[1, 3,0] For PDELIE and SYM DE the input form would be DIFF(U,T) U 3 DIFF(U,X,3) For SPDE and LIE the program accepts ....

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M.J. Ablowitz and P.A. Clarkson, Solitons, Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Inverse Scattering, London Mathematical Society Lecture Notes on Mathematics 149 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1991).

....to write the system in terms of the invariants of the group action and to perform a Gr obner basis type calculation on the invariantised system. The following simple example from the classical literature illustrates the idea in essence. The Halphen Darboux system of ordinary di erential equations ([1], p. 336) dw 1 dt = w 2 w 3 w 1 (w 2 w 3 ) dw 2 dt = w 1 w 3 w 2 (w 1 w 3 ) dw 3 dt = w 1 w 2 w 3 (w 1 w 2 ) 3) is invariant under permutations of the w i . One generating set of invariants of the permutation group is s 1 = w 1 w 2 w 3 s 2 = w 1 w 2 w 2 w 3 w 1 w 3 s 3 ....

.... In[u ,K] while the operator D j is calculated using the function f 7 Idiff(f,j) restart:with(Indiff) HNI ; IKolRitt ; IdSpoly ; Idi ; Idi parse ; Invariantize ; Iorthreduceall ; Ireduce; Ireduceall ; Kmat ] vars: x] ukns: u] GroupP: a,b,alpha,beta,delta] XiPhis: matrix( [1,0], 0,1] x, u(x) u(x) 0] 0,x] XiPhis : 2 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 4 1 0 0 1 x u(x) u(x) 0 0 x 3 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 5 The normalisation equations, Neqs, are the invariantised moving frame equations. The function HNI calculates the set ....

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....freedom to identify the four points with 0, 1, #, t, where t is the cross ratio. However, as remarked by Yoshida in his wonderful book [61] it is not fair that only the fourth point is allowed to move freely . The more democratic version of the cross ratio used there is simply the point [ 1 , 2 , 3 ] on the line 1 2 3 = 0 in P 2 , with j invariant ( 2 1 2 2 2 3 ) 3 2 1 2 2 2 3 = 8x 3 c 2 . Note also that under the matrix Riccati equation, all four of the points move (relative to a D parallel trivialization) as does the democratic cross ratio, since x is not constant. I ....

.... to find r as a function of a projective coordinate t: up to projective transformation of t, it is the Schwarzian triangle function S(0, # 2, # 3; t) which is a modular function for SL(2, Z) This leads to a nice formula for a in terms of (not surprisingly) the discriminant modular form see [1] a(t) #(t) 6#(t) 9.2) I summarize this discussion by explaining how the solution of the matrix Riccati equation is related to these ideas. First note that the map sending a point of C to [# 1 , # 2 , # 3 ] is a local di#eomorphism, and so C can be identified locally with the ....

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M. J. Ablowitz and P. A. Clarkson, Solitons, Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Inverse Scattering, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1991).

.... to f(t) t = v t Gamma v xx Gamma v 2 x for some function f = f(t) Renaming v Gamma f u gives (14) and its conservation laws (15) To give a further example, we consider the Boussinesq equation describing surface water waves whose horizontal scale is much larger than the depth of the water [1], 14] u tt Gamma u xx 3uu xx 3u 2 x ffu xxxx = 0: 22) 6 Although already used in [2] 35] this example is shown again as it also serves to demonstrate an extension to non local conservation laws in section 5. 13 Calculating conservation laws, using (22) to substitute u xxxx , the ....

Ablowitz, M.J., Clarkson, P.A. (1991) Solitons, Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Inverse Scattering. London Math. Soc. Lec. Note Ser. 149. London: Cambridge University Press.

....space M c (n) together. 2) To solve this system of n variables, it suffices to solve the first flow equations of two variables. The literature in soliton theory is enormous, and we will only refer here to papers we use directly. There are many excellent survey articles and books; for example [2], 9] 28] 16] 29] where the reader can find more complete bibliographies. The relations among Backlund transformations, Poisson loop group actions, and the inverse scattering for the j th flow equation (j = Gamma1; 1; 2; will be studied in forthcoming joint papers with K. Uhlenbeck. ....

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....non linear partial di erential equations by Gardner, Green Kruskal and Miura and its connection with the singularity theory: Painlev e property, isomodromy deformations, etc. An idea of the amount of papers published in this eld is given by the 52 pages of references quoted in the monograph [1]. Although along of this paper essentially there are no new results, in section 4 I state a new result. It is a generalization of the so called Morales Ramis theorem about the non integrability of an analytical Hamiltonian system by means of the variational equations. This was conjectured by the ....

.... property From the H enon Heiles system studied above we observe the similarity between the variational method to prove non integrability used here and the Kovalevskaya Painlev e test to detect integrable systems : the existence of a logarithm is, in general, an obstruction to integrability, see [19, 65, 1] and references therein. Motivated by that, in this section I try to make some remarks about this connection and also to make some ideas on the meaning of the Painlev e property for the study of integrable systems. For this we need to precise the concept of integrability for complex analytical ....

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.... 1 2 ] 2 ; 72) where c is an arbitrary constant, and with = 1 p 6 x 5 6 t : Note that (72) does not follow from (70) in the limit for k 0: A solution similar to (72) was rst obtained by Ablowitz and Zeppetella [3] 5 Truncated Painlev e Expansion A PDE passes the Painlev e test [1, 9] if its solution u(x; t) expressed as a Laurent series in the complex plane, u(x; t) g (x; t) 1 X k=0 u k (x; t)g k (x; t) 73) has no worse singularities than movable poles. First, the negative integer and the coecient u 0 (x; t) are computed by substituting (73) into the given ....

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....is given in Section 3. To illustrate the method we use the Toda lattice [19] a parameterized Toda lattice [8] and the discretized nonlinear Schr odinger (NLS) equation [20 22] In Section 4, we list results for an extended Lotka Volterra equation [23] a discretized modi ed KdV equation [24], a network equation [24] and some other lattices [2] The features, scope and limitations of our code di dens.m are described in Section 5, together with instructions for the user. In Section 6, we draw some conclusions. 2 De nitions 2.1 Conservation laws Consider a system of DDEs which is ....

....3. To illustrate the method we use the Toda lattice [19] a parameterized Toda lattice [8] and the discretized nonlinear Schr odinger (NLS) equation [20 22] In Section 4, we list results for an extended Lotka Volterra equation [23] a discretized modi ed KdV equation [24] a network equation [24], and some other lattices [2] The features, scope and limitations of our code di dens.m are described in Section 5, together with instructions for the user. In Section 6, we draw some conclusions. 2 De nitions 2.1 Conservation laws Consider a system of DDEs which is continuous in time, and ....

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....in the user guides [7, 8] Using the algorithmic language REFAL, Topunov [92] developed a software package for symmetry analysis that contains subroutines to reduce determining systems in passive form. 12 W. Hereman 4 Examples 4. 1 The Dym Kruskal equation Consider the Dym Kruskal equation [1], u t u 3 u xxx = 0: 5) Clearly, this is one equation with two independent variables and one dependent variable. The assignments of the variables are as follows: x 7 x[1] t 7 x[2] u 7 u[1] 6) Then, symmetry software such as SPDE, LIE, PDELIE, DIMSYM, SYM DE or SYMMGRP.MAX, ....

....systems in passive form. 12 W. Hereman 4 Examples 4.1 The Dym Kruskal equation Consider the Dym Kruskal equation [1] u t u 3 u xxx = 0: 5) Clearly, this is one equation with two independent variables and one dependent variable. The assignments of the variables are as follows: x 7 x[1] ; t 7 x[2] u 7 u[1] 6) Then, symmetry software such as SPDE, LIE, PDELIE, DIMSYM, SYM DE or SYMMGRP.MAX, automatically compute the determining equations for the coecients eta[1] x ; eta[2] t , and phi[1] u of the vector eld = x x t t u u : ....

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....of the KdV equation Consider the integrable discretization of the KdV equation: u n = u n (u n 1 u n 1 ) 10) which is known as the Kac Van Moerbeke equation or a special form of the Volterra system. It arises in the study of Langmuir oscillations in plasmas, and in population dynamics [16 18]. Notice that (10) is invariant under the scaling symmetry (t; u n ) t; 1 u n ) Hence, u n corresponds to one derivative with respect to t; i.e. u n d dt : All terms in (10) have the same rank if w(u n ) 1 = 2 w(u n ) thus, w(u n ) 1; which agrees with the scaling symmetry. Let ....

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....algorithm, involve one or two dependent variables. For simplicity of notation, the components of u will be denoted by u; v; instead of u 1 ; u 2 , etc. 2. 2 Algorithm To illustrate our algorithm, we consider the Korteweg de Vries (KdV) equation u t = 6uu x u 3x (5) from soliton theory [1, 42]. This ubiquitous evolution equation is long known to have in nitely many symmetries [14] Key to our method is the observation that (5) is invariant under the dilation symmetry (or scaling) t; x; u) 3 t; 1 x; 2 u) 6) where is an arbitrary parameter. The result of this ....

....are able to apply our algorithm to a larger class of polynomial PDE systems. Consider the wave equation, u tt u 2x 3uu 2x 3u 2 x u 4x = 0; 15) constant) which was proposed by Boussinesq to describe surface water waves whose horizontal scale is much larger than the depth of the water [1]. To apply our algorithm, we must rst rewrite (15) as a rst order system, u t = v x ; v t = u x 3uu x u 3x ; 16) where v is an auxiliary dependent variable. It is easy to verify that the terms u x and u 3x in the second equation obstruct uniformity in rank. To circumvent the problem we ....

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.... Hamiltonian structures, and exact solutions of nonlinear ordinary and partial di erential equations (ODEs and PDEs) and di erential di erence equations (DDEs) has been the topic of major research projects in the dynamical systems [1] analytical mechanics [2,3] and the soliton communities [1,2,4 6]. In the context of ODEs, complete integrability is synonymous with solvability in terms of elementary or special functions (including the Painlev e transcendents) In contrast, the connotation complete integrability of PDEs is still subject to debate and clari cation [7] A summary of the ....

....property; i.e. its solutions have no movable singularities other than poles in the complex plane. A later version of the Painlev e test due to Weiss et al. 46] allows testing of the PDE directly, without recourse to the reduction(s) to an ODE. A PDE is said to have the Painlev e property [4] if all solutions in the complex plane are single valued around all movable singularities. In other words, all the solutions of the equation must be branchless around the singular points whose positions depend on the initial conditions. For ODEs, it suces to show that the general solution has no ....

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....systems of PDEs using only ODE solution techniques. Applied to symmetry problems, their algorithm will nd all polynomial rational solutions of the determining equations provided the symmetry group is nite dimensional. 6 Examples 6. 1 The Harry Dym Equation Consider the Harry Dym equation [1], u t u 3 u xxx = 0: 17) Clearly, this is one equation (m = 1) with two independent variables (p = 2) and one dependent variable (q = 1) The assignments of the variables are as follows: x 7 x[1] t 7 x[2] u 7 u[1] 18) This permits to rewrite the equation (17) in a form accepted by the ....

....is nite dimensional. 6 Examples 6. 1 The Harry Dym Equation Consider the Harry Dym equation [1] u t u 3 u xxx = 0: 17) Clearly, this is one equation (m = 1) with two independent variables (p = 2) and one dependent variable (q = 1) The assignments of the variables are as follows: x 7 x[1] ; t 7 x[2] u 7 u[1] 18) This permits to rewrite the equation (17) in a form accepted by the program SYMMGRP.MAX, i.e. e1 : u[1, 0,1] u[1] 3 u[1, 3,0] For PDELIE and SYM DE the input form would be DIFF(U,T) U 3 DIFF(U,X,3) For SPDE and LIE the program accepts ....

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....solutions will exist for such equations. The development and implementation of a comprehensive algorithm that could handle other types of bilinear representations [9] is in progress. 2. 2 Algorithm and Implementation Details about the method can be found in almost any book on soliton theory, [1, 2, 4] here we outline the procedure. Hirota s method requires: i) a clever change of dependent variable; ii) the introduction of a novel di erential operator; iii) a perturbation expansion to solve the resulting bilinear equation. Our leading example is the Korteweg de Vries equation, u t 6uu x ....

....5 3 The Painlev e Test 3.1 Purpose The MACSYMA program PAINLEVE SINGLE.MAX allows one to determine whether or not a given single nonlinear ODE or PDE with (real) polynomial terms ful lls the necessary conditions for having the Painlev e property. A PDE is said to possess the Painlev e property [1] if its solutions in the complex plane are single valued in the neighborhood of non characteristic, movable singular manifolds. For ODEs, this means that solutions should have no worse singularities than movable poles. Such equations are prime candidates for being completely integrable. 3.2 ....

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....is given, together with instructions for the user. A future version of SYMMGRP.MAX will automatically compute the determining equations for nonclassical symmetries and also generalized (velocity dependent) symmetries. 5 Examples 5.1 The Harry Dym equation. Consider the Harry Dym equation [1], u t u 3 u xxx = 0: 5) Clearly, this is one equation (m = 1) with two independent variables (p = 2) and one dependent variable (q = 1) The assignments of the variables are as follows: x 7 x[1] t 7 x[2] u 7 u[1] 6) This permits to write the equation (5) in a standard form accepted by ....

....dependent) symmetries. 5 Examples 5.1 The Harry Dym equation. Consider the Harry Dym equation [1] u t u 3 u xxx = 0: 5) Clearly, this is one equation (m = 1) with two independent variables (p = 2) and one dependent variable (q = 1) The assignments of the variables are as follows: x 7 x[1] ; t 7 x[2] u 7 u[1] 6) This permits to write the equation (5) in a standard form accepted by our program, e1 : u[1, 0,1] u[1] 3 u[1, 3,0] Next, one selects the variable u t for elimination, i.e. v1 : u[1, 0,1] Then, SYMMGRP.MAX automatically computes the determining equations for ....

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....of L(0) then propagating them in time (which is simple) and finally reconstructing the potential q(x; t) in L(t) via the Gelfand Levitan, or rather, the Marchenko equation. Miraculously, this function q(x; t) is the desired solution of the Cauchy problem. See, for instance, Ablowitz and Clarkson [1], Ch. 2, Asano and Kato [11] Chs. 5,6, Dodd, Eilbeck, Gibbon, and Morris [46] Ch. 4, Drazin and Johnson [52] Ch. 4, Gardner, Greene, Kruskal, and Miura [78] Iliev, Khristov, and Kirchev [117] Ch. 3, Lax [147] Marchenko [153] Ch. 4, and Palais [173] for more details. 2.2. Hamiltonian ....

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.... the analysis of dynamical systems in small dimensions was flourishing gained rapidly in popularity (see [27] for a review) Soon after, the method was generalized to PDEs by Weiss Tabor and Carnevale [28] this WTC method was applied in a variety of situations with some success (See for instance [29]) In 1983, Haruo Yoshida developed independently an ingenuous method to prove the nonexistence of first integrals based on the method of Kovalevskaya. The actual equivalence between the two methods (ARS and Yoshida s) only became clear a few years later [30] 4 Terminology The name Kovalevskaya ....

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....transmitted signal energy while enhancing signal detection and parameter estimation performance. EDICS: SP2.7 1 Introduction Solitons are stable, mode like solutions to a special class of nonlinear wave equations that can be solved analytically using a technique known as inverse scattering [1]. The inverse scattering transform can be interpreted as a nonlinear Fourier analysis for these systems which decomposes wave dynamics into a superposition of normal modes. These normal modes are solitons, and their particle like properties have been observed in a variety of natural phenomena ....

....the individual solitary waves approach one another, they begin to interact nonlinearly. However, after passing through one another, they regain their shape and speed with only a slight positional shift [17] There are many physical systems that support soliton solutions in a wide range of media [1] [3] 5] 9] These can be distributed systems with dynamics described by partial differential equations and whose solitons propagate through a bulk medium such as water, optical fiber, or plasma. They can also be lumped or cascade systems in which solitons propagate along a chain of identical ....

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....Systems that support solitons share many of the properties that make LTI systems attractive from an engineering standpoint. Although nonlinear, these systems are analytically solvable through a technique called inverse scattering, which is analogous to the Fourier transform for linear systems [1]. Solitons are eigenfunctions of these systems and satisfy a nonlinear form of superposition. We can therefore decompose complex solutions in terms of a class of signals with simple dynamical structure. In this paper, we examine the properties of solitons as signals and propose and investigate ....

....Specifically, a solitary wave solution with temporal and spatial variables, t and n, is a traveling wave of the form, u(n; t) f(n Gamma ct) f(z) where c is a fixed constant, and the energy of f(z) is localized in z. There are many physical systems that support solitary wave solutions [1, 9, 25]. In this paper we focus primarily on two, referred to as the Toda lattice [33] and discrete KdV [1, 31] equations. 2 . y n 1 y n y n 1 Figure 1: The Toda Lattice. 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 time mass index Figure 2: A propagating wave solution to the Toda lattice ....

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....systems of PDEs using only ODE solution techniques. Applied to symmetry problems, their algorithm will find all polynomial rational solutions of the determining equations provided the symmetry group is finite dimensional. 6 Examples 6. 1 The Harry Dym Equation Consider the Harry Dym equation[1], u t u 3 u xxx =0. 16) Clearly, this is one equation (m=1) with two independent variables ( p= 2) and one dependent variable (q = 1) The assignments of the variables are as follows: x x[1] t x[2] u u[1] 17) This permits to rewrite the equation(16) in a form accepted by the program ....

....is finite dimensional. 6 Examples 6.1 The Harry Dym Equation Consider the Harry Dym equation[1] u t u 3 u xxx =0. 16) Clearly, this is one equation (m=1) with two independent variables ( p= 2) and one dependent variable (q = 1) The assignments of the variables are as follows: x x[1] , t x[2] u u[1] 17) This permits to rewrite the equation(16) in a form accepted by the program SYMMGRP.MAX, i.e. e1 : u[1, 0,1] u[1] 3 u[1, 3,0] For PDELIE and SYM DE the input form would be DIFF(U,T) U 3 DIFF(U,X,3) For SPDE and LIE the program accepts U(1,2) U(1) 3 U(1,1,1,1) ....

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.... School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia, andrewp maths.usyd.edu.au, apickeri maths.adelaide.edu.au 1 1 Introduction Integrable differential equations are those that are solvable (for a large space of initial data) through an associated linear problem[1]. It is conjectured that the solutions of all such equations possess a characteristic complex singularity structure [2] In particular, there is widespread evidence that all movable singularities of all solutions are poles [3, 4] This is commonly referred to as the Painlev e property. Extensions ....

M. J. Ablowitz and P. A. Clarkson. Solitons, Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Inverse Scattering, volume 149 of London Mathematical Society Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1991.

....1 Permanent address: Department of Mathematical Sciences, Loughborough University of Technology, Loughborough LE11 3TU, U.K. 1 1 Introduction The solvable nonlinear equations of soliton theory are given as the compatibility conditions of linear differential equations (see e.g. the recent books [1] or [14] for a state of the art presentation) It was observed at the early stages of this theory that squared eigenfunctions , i.e. products of solutions of the linear problems, play a role in the treatment of such systems. Already in his fundamental paper [24] Lax observed for the Korteweg de ....

M. J. Ablowitz and P.A. Clarkson, Solitons, Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Inverse Scattering, London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series 149, Cambridge University Press, 1991.

....the Cauchy problem for the Korteweg de Vries equation, has led to the solution of numerous physically important nonlinear partial differential equations. In essence, the key to inverse scattering is that the partial differential equation is rewritten in terms of a linear integral equation (cf. [3,4]) Several of the Painlev e equations have been studied in an analogous way which is often useful in deriving properties of their solutions. The technique we use in this work is the isomonodromy deformation method which was devised in order to solve nonlinear ordinary and partial differential ....

....analogous way which is often useful in deriving properties of their solutions. The technique we use in this work is the isomonodromy deformation method which was devised in order to solve nonlinear ordinary and partial differential equations. Although the method has been extensively discussed (see [3], 5] and the monograph by Its Novokshenov [6] for convenience we quickly review its salient features. In the context of Painlev e equations, the isomonodromy deformation method usually arises from a Lax pair of equations of the type Psi k =A(k; z) Psi; 1:1a) Psi z =B(k; z) Psi; 1:1b) ....

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....0 ) 2 Gamma 4 y 3 g 2 y g 3 = 0 where g 2 ; g 3 are constants in Q . This is the reduced equation of the solitary wave u(x; t) ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS OF AN ALGEBRAIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIOS 23 2 y(x Gamma c t) Gamma c 6 of the Korteg de Vries equation u t Gamma 6 u u x u xxx = 0 (Ablowitz and Clarkson 1991). We are mostly interested in its real solutions. When g 3 2 6= 27 g 2 3 , i.e. when 4 y 3 Gamma g 2 y Gamma g 3 has only simple roots, the equation admits the Weierstrass elliptic function, and its translations, as nonsingular solution (Whittaker and Watson 1927) We will see that the ....

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.... to f(t) t = v t Gamma v xx Gamma v 2 x for some function f = f(t) Renaming v Gamma f u gives (14) and its conservation laws (15) To give a further example, we consider the Boussinesq equation describing surface water waves whose horizontal scale is much larger than the depth of the water [1], 13] u tt Gamma u xx 3uu xx 3u 2 x ffu xxxx = 0: 22) Calculating conservation laws, using (22) to substitute u xxxx , the only characteristic functions Q up to 4 th order are 1; x; t; xt: On the other hand, substituting u = v x , integrating (22) with respect to x and renaming v ....

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....of the given PDE. However, because the method involves some assumptions, its failure does not prove nonintegrability. Recently there has been interest in integrable systems of infinitely many coupled ordinary differential equations, either as semi discrete versions of an integrable PDE [5, 6] or in their own right ( 7, 8, 9, 10] In this paper, we generalize the Estabrook Wahlquist method to apply to certain semi discrete systems. Given such a semi discrete system of equations, we demonstrate a systematic way to find a scattering pair (i.e. an associated linear spectral problem) for ....

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.... Finally, between the different excellent existing books on solitons let us suggest to the reader [57] and [58] as the most accurate and complete for the nonlinear evolution equations associated to the Schrodinger and to the Zakharov Shabat spectral equation in 1 1 dimensions, respectively, and [59] as the most updated and comprehensive. In particular for those who want to have a general overlooking on the subject and a rich bibliography to pick over this book is particularly recommended. A new book on multidimensional soliton has been just announced [60] For the Backlund and Darboux ....

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....y) x and y are continuous, and n = #, # is a discrete coordinate. The overall simplicity of (1. 1) along with its Galilean invariance makes this a natural three dimensional nonlinear integrable system to study (a survey of the theory of 1 1 and 2 1 integrable systems can be found in [1] and [2]) When # n (x, y) does not depend upon x, one recovers the classical Toda lattice d 2 # n dy 2 =2 e 2(#n 1 #n ) e 2(#n #n 1 ) 1.2) that models a nonlinear infinite chain in which # n stands for the displacement of the nth lattice point. It is assumed that lattice points ....

....= 0 (the spectrum is purely discrete) It follows from (2.3a) that I 1 = 0 and hence (2.2) yields that is meromorphic: x, n, y, k) 1 m X j=1 # j (x, n, y) k k j . 3.1) We first solve in a formal sense the inverse problem for such a case. The technique is more or less standard [1] [2], 3] 4] 5] Then we establish conditions that guarantee reality and smoothness of the corresponding solutions to (1.1) Proposition 3.1. Assume that is given by (3.1) i.e. it is meromorphic with m poles at locations k j ,j =1, m. We have the following. i) The solution to (2.6) is ....

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....but there are fundamental difficulties which have yet to be overcome in order to have substantial higher dimensional applications of the method. This situation is to be contrasted with that for the Fourier transform, which works equally well in all space dimensions. Leading researchers in [1] have called the problem of finding a satisfactory extension of IST to several space dimensions the most important open problem in this field. Here it will be shown how prototype forward and inverse scattering transforms (which reduce to the forward and inverse Fourier transforms) for the linear ....

....References x0 Introduction In this work we explore the realm of Clifford analysis as a possible means of generalizing the inverse scattering method to an arbitrary number of space dimensions. The current approaches to the inverse scattering method (see Beals Coifman [2] Ablowitz Clarkson [1]) in more than two space dimensions do not possess as strong of a resemblance to the Fourier method of solving the initial value problem for linear evolutionary partial differential equations as one would like. So we present here a version of the inverse scattering method which works for the ....

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....of NLODE s with SF s. Lie s original result essentially states that the right hand side of eq. 1) must lie in a finite dimensional Lie algebra (see eq. 4) This condition is imposed [12] on Backlund transformations in the theory of completely integrable infinite dimensional Hamiltonian systems [13] . For equations in the AKNS hierarchy [14] the algebra is sl(2; or sl(2; C) and indeed the corresponding Backlund transformations have the form of Riccati equations (in each independent variable) MRE s occur as Backlund transformations for multifield equations, such as those occuring in ....

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.... Another possibility for the origin of the transformation groups of PIII and PVI is that these equations might arise as scaling reductions of some other bihamiltonian integrable system in 1 1 dimensions (it is known that PIII and PVI arise as reductions of certain 1 1 dimensional systems see [15], p.343 for references but not as scaling reductions) It can be shown that group actions which survive scaling reduction exist on the spaces of solutions of other bihamiltonian systems. Indeed the reader can check that PIV arises as a scaling reduction of the system j t = j x j 2 Gamma ....

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....the divisor D = P g i=1 P i , are the two ingredients needed for Krichever s inverse scattering procedure [8] This justifies the label spectral data for them. Krichever s procedure seems quite different from the way inverse scattering is usually done, namely by way of a Riemann Hilbert problem [44]. However, In [20] Krichever argues that the Riemann theta function construction for the finite genus solution is nothing but the effective solution of the associated Riemann Hilbert problem. Using Krichever s construction we recover the potential u(x; y; t) at an arbitrary time t in terms of ....

....a version of the Boussinesq equation [22] 3U yy Gamma 4aU xx Gamma 4bU xy i 3U 2 U xx j xx = 0; 73) and we recover the familiar result that the stationary reduction of the KP equation is the Boussinesq equation. If b = 0, 73) reduces to the standard form of the Boussinesq equation [44]. Equation (73) can of course be obtained from (KP) and the set of equations (70a) The BC matrix is again calculated following the procedure in step 4 of x4. It is a 3 Theta 3 matrix with the following structure: BC( Gamma 0 B 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 C A 2 0 B 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 ....

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....; a = 3 N c M 1=2 j Z c jffl 1=2 (37) In order to estimate the size of the neighborhood of t 0 where collapse is arrested a more careful analysis is required. Let B = jA so that B ss = sB 2B 3 (38) The behavior of the solutions of (38) is characterized by the following result [1, 12]. Any solution of (38) satisfying lim s 1 B(s) 0 is asymptotic to kAi(s) for some k. If jkj 1 then as s Gamma1 B(s) O(jsj Gamma1=4 ) and if jkj 1, B(s) has a pole at a finite s c , depending on k. To apply this result we express k in terms of the parameters of the problem and ....

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....all of its solutions are single valued about all movable singularities. A singularity is said to be movable if it varies with initial conditions, i.e. it is not a singularity of the equation itself. The observation that this property is associated with integrability has proved most fruitful c.f. [7, 5, 6, 4, 28]. In all cases studied to date it has been found that all ODEs that possess the Painlev e property are integrable (solvable) either directly or via a related linear problem. We also remark, however, that certain equations solvable via an evolving monodromy problem do not possess the Painlev e ....

....; are some known integrable discretizations of P II [26, 34, 24, 33, 15, 30] A natural question arises: is it possible to determine a priori whether a given di erence equation is integrable In the case of di erential equations, at least a partial answer is provided by the Painlev e test c.f. [5, 6, 4, 28]. This property is suggested by the inverse scattering transform, however, it is 3 still not fully understood why the integrability of a real di erential equation should be re ected in the singularity structure of its solutions in the complex domain. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the ....

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....plane, or in a domain bounded by a straight line or a circle, the location of which is dependent on the constants of integration. Furthermore, the radius and center of this circle can be specified by the initial conditions, i.e. in terms of y, y x and y xx at some given point x 0 , cf. [1]. The Chazy equation is deeply connected to special automorphic functions (elliptic modular functions) which arise in various branches of mathematics, in particular number theory. See, for example, 23] for further details. A Painlev e analysis demonstrates that the Chazy equation also possesses ....

....of the SDYM equations. Subsequently many of the well known soliton equations, such as the Kortewegde Vries, nonlinear Schrodinger, sine Gordon, Kadomtsev Petviashvili, Davey Stewartson, and Painlev e equations, have been discovered to be exact or asymptotic reductions of the SDYM equations (cf. [1]) All these classical soliton equations arise when it is assumed that the Yang Mills potentials take values in a finite dimensional Lie algebra such as su(2) By contrast, the Chazy equation arises when it is assumed that the Yang Mills potentials take values in the infinite dimensional Lie ....

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