A tropical analogue of Fay's trisecant identity and the ultra-discrete periodic Toda lattice (Q2391138)

Fay's trisecant identity for Riemann's theta function, associated with an algebraic curve, was established in [\textit{J. D. Fay}, Theta functions on Riemann surfaces. Lecture Notes in Mathematics. 352. Berlin-Heidelberg-New York: Springer-Verlag (1973; Zbl 0281.30013)]. In the paper under review, the tropical version of this identity is established for certain special hyperelliptic tropical curves (and conjectured for an arbitrary tropical curve). In particular, the ultra-discrete periodic Toda lattice system \(T\) can be transformed into a special case of Fay's trisecant identity for a tropical spectral curve of \(T\), which allows the authors to obtain the general solution of \(T\) in terms of the corresponding tropical Riemann's theta function.