Prym's theta-function and hierarchies of nonlinear equations (Q1177794)

The author constructs a 3-dimensional family of 4-secant planes of the Kummer variety corresponding to the Prym variety associated to a double cover of a Riemann surface \(X\) of genus \(g>1\) ramified at two points \(p\) and \(q\). They are parametrized by triples of points of \(X\). The degeneration of the triple to the divisor \(3p\) or \(2p+q\) leads to a construction of two hierarchies of nonlinear PDE whose finite-zoned solutions are expressed via Prym theta functions. Some of the equations in these two hierarchies coincide with the equations from the hierarchy constructed by \textit{E. Date}, \textit{M. Jimbo}, \textit{M. Kashiwara} and \textit{T. Miwa} [Physica D 4, 343--365 (1982; Zbl 0571.35100)] and the hierarchy constructed by \textit{A. P. Veselov} and \textit{S. P. Novikov} [Sov. Math., Dokl. 30, 588--591 (1984); translation from Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR 279, 20--24 (1984; Zbl 0613.35020)].