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Dispersionless Hirota equations and the genus 3 hyperelliptic divisor

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems 2019-09-04 v2 Algebraic Geometry Differential Geometry

Abstract

Equations of dispersionless Hirota type have been thoroughly investigated in the mathematical physics and differential geometry literature. It is known that the parameter space of integrable Hirota type equations in 3D is 21-dimensional and the action of the natural equivalence group Sp(6, R) on the parameter space has an open orbit. However the structure of the `master-equation' corresponding to this orbit remained elusive. Here we prove that the master-equation is specified by the vanishing of any genus 3 theta constant with even characteristic. The rich geometry of integrable Hirota type equations sheds new light on local differential geometry of the genus 3 hyperelliptic divisor, in particular, the integrability conditions can be viewed as local differential-geometric constraints that characterise the hyperelliptic divisor uniquely modulo Sp(6, C)-equivalence.

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@article{arxiv.1804.07724,
  title  = {Dispersionless Hirota equations and the genus 3 hyperelliptic divisor},
  author = {Fabien Cléry and Evgeny V. Ferapontov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.07724},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

amended version, to appear in Comm. Math. Phys., 15 pages

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