Spectral curves and Whitham equations in isomonodromic problems of Schlesinger type (Q1585462)

The connection between isomonodromic and isospectral problems is considered in this paper in the light of recent studies related to the Seiberg-Witten solutions of \(N=2\) supersymmetric gauge theories. The author reformulates the Schlesinger equation to include a small parameter \(\varepsilon.\) The solutions to such isomonodromic problem are expected to behave as a slowly modulated finite-gap solution to an isospectral problem, when \(\varepsilon \rightarrow 0\). The modulation is caused by slow deformations of the spectral curve of the finite-gap solution. The author derives a modulation equation of this slow dynamics and shows as to construct a general solution to such equation.