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Explicit solutions to the Riemann-Hilbert problem will be found realising some irreducible non-rigid local systems. The relation to isomonodromy and the sixth Painleve equation will be described. Keywords: Riemann-Hilbert problem, Painleve…
We establish a new perturbation theory for orthogonal polynomials using a Riemann--Hilbert approach and consider applications in numerical linear algebra and random matrix theory. This new approach shows that the orthogonal polynomials with…
We present an alternative integrable discretization of differential-difference KdV equation based on Hirota bilinear formalism. It is shown that using two tau functions the direct discretisation of the bilinear equations gives immediately…
We extend a recent result of [13] for the KdV hierarchy to the Toda lattice hierarchy. Namely, for an arbitrary solution to the Toda lattice hierarchy, we define a pair of wave functions, and use them to give explicit formulae for the…
The interface problem for the linear Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation in one-dimensional piecewise homogeneous domains is examined by constructing an explicit solution in each domain. The location of the interface is known and a number of…
The Riemann-Wirtinger integral is an analogue of the hypergeometric integral defined on a one-dimensional complex torus. As a generalization, we define the Riemann-Wirtinger integral on the product of two one-dimensional complex tori. We…
A Weierstrass type projective Riccati equation expansion method is proposed by using the Weierstrass elliptic function solutions of the projective Riccati equations and the conversion formulas which transform the Weierstrass elliptic…
Boundary value problems for integrable nonlinear evolution PDEs formulated on the finite interval can be analyzed by the unified method introduced by one of the authors and used extensively in the literature. The implementation of this…
Hirota's discrete Korteweg-de Vries equation (dKdV) is an integrable partial difference equation on 2-dimensional integer lattice, which approaches the Korteweg-de Vries equation in a continuum limit. We find new transformations to other…
We give sufficient conditions, on data including the monodromy representation, the Stokes matrices and the Poincare ranks at prescribed singularities, to solve the generalized Riemann-Hilbert problem with irregular singularities. We recover…
Various solutions to the discrete Schwarzian KdV equation are discussed. We first derive the bilinear difference equations of Hirota type of the discrete Schwarzian KP equation, which is decomposed into three discrete two-dimensional Toda…
This paper develops the numerical inverse scattering transform (NIST) framework for the coupled modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV) equation based on its associated Riemann-Hilbert problem. The coupled system gives rise to a $3\times3$…
We present a Riemann-Hilbert problem formalism for the initial-boundary value problem for the Sasa-Satsuma(SS) equation on the finite interval. Assume that the solution existes, we show that this solution can be expressed in terms of the…
We consider the Riemann-Hilbert factorization approach to solving the field equations of dimensionally reduced gravity theories. First we prove that functions belonging to a certain class possess a canonical factorization due to properties…
We develop the inverse scattering transform method for the Novikov equation $u_t-u_{txx}+4u^2u_x=3u u_xu_{xx}+u^2u_{xxx}$ considered on the line $x\in(-\infty,\infty)$ in the case of non-zero constant background. The approach is based on…
We provide a detailed treatment of Ruijsenaars-Toda (RT) hierarchy with special emphasis on its the theta function representation of all algebro-geometric solutions. The basic tools involve hyperelliptic curve $\mathcal{K}_p$ associated…
We investigate the observability of a general class of linear dispersive equations on the torus $\mathbb{T}$. We take one line segment or two line segments in space-time region as the observable set. We give the characteristic on the slopes…
An integrable structure behind Witten--Dijkgraaf--Verlinde--Verlinde (WDVV) equations is identified with reduction of a Riemann-Hilbert problem for a homogeneous GL(N, C) loop group. Reduction requires the dressing matrices to be fixed…
We establish precise spectral criteria for potential functions $V$ of reflectionless Schr\"odinger operators $L_V = -\partial_x^2 + V$ to admit solutions to the Korteweg de-Vries (KdV) hierarchy with $V$ as an initial value. More generally,…
Based on integrable Hamiltonian systems related to the derivative Schwarzian Korteweg-de Vries (SKdV) equation, a novel discrete Lax pair for the lattice SKdV (lSKdV) equation is given by two copies of a Darboux transformation which can be…