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Block Toeplitz determinants, constrained KP and Gelfand-Dickey hierarchies

Functional Analysis 2013-06-06 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems

Abstract

We propose a method for computing any Gelfand-Dickey tau function living in Segal-Wilson Grassmannian as the asymptotics of block Toeplitz determinant associated to a certain class of symbols. Also truncated block Toeplitz determinants associated to the same symbols are shown to be tau function for rational reductions of KP. Connection with Riemann-Hilbert problems is investigated both from the point of view of integrable systems and block Toeplitz operator theory. Examples of applications to algebro-geometric solutions are given.

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@article{arxiv.0711.2248,
  title  = {Block Toeplitz determinants, constrained KP and Gelfand-Dickey hierarchies},
  author = {Mattia Cafasso},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.2248},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

35 pages. Typos corrected, some changes in the introduction

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