Fredholm Determinants and the <i>τ</i> Function for the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili Hierarchy

  • Ch. Pöppe

    Universität Heidelberg, Germany
  • D. H. Sattinger

    University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

Abstract

The "dressing method" of Zakharov and Shabat is applied to the theory of the τ function, vertex operators, and the bilinear identity obtained by Sato and his co-workers. The vertex operator identity relating the τ function to the Baker-Akhiezer function is obtained from their representations in terms of the Fredholm determinants and minors of the scattering operator appearing in the GePfand-Levitan-Marchenko equation. The bilinear identity is extended to wave functions analytic in a left half plane and is proved as a consequence of the inversion theorem and the convolution theorem for the Laplace transform.

Cite this article

Ch. Pöppe, D. H. Sattinger, Fredholm Determinants and the <i>τ</i> Function for the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili Hierarchy. Publ. Res. Inst. Math. Sci. 24 (1988), no. 4, pp. 505–538

DOI 10.2977/PRIMS/1195174865