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A discretization of the peakons lattice is introduced, belonging to the same hierarchy as the continuous--time system. The construction examplifies the general scheme for integrable discretization of systems on Lie algebras with $r$--matrix…
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A categorical theory for the discretization of a large class of dynamical systems with variable coefficients is proposed. It is based on the existence of covariant functors between the Rota category of Galois differential algebras and…
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Ablowitz and Ladik discovered a discretization which preserves the integrability of the nonlinear Schroedinger equation in one dimension. We compute the generalized free energy of this model and determine the GGE averaged fields and…
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