Geometry of KDV (3): Determinants and unimodular isospectral flows (Q4036081)

[For parts I, II see: the author, Rev. Mat. Iberoam. 2, 235-261 (1986; Zbl 0651.35074); J. Stat. Phys. 46, No. 5/6, 1115-1143 (1987; Zbl 0689.35076).] The discussion of example (c) in part II employed the infinitesimal additions X (part I), and the class-preserving flows they generate. The latter appeared before in McKean-Trubowitz [e.g.: the author and \textit{E. Trubowitz}, (*) Commun. Math. Phys. 82, 471-495 (1982; Zbl 0493.34012)]. \textit{D. Mumford} [Tata lectures on theta (1983; Zbl 0509.14049); (1984; Zbl 0549.14014); (1991; Zbl 0744.14033)] also used them in his discussion of hyperelliptic Jacobi varieties. The purpose of this paper is to integrate explicitly the flows \(\partial Q/\partial t=\text{X}Q\) for a still wider family of fields X, assuming only that \(Q\) is smooth and that spec \(Q\subset[0,\infty)\). The method is adapted from McKean-Trubowitz (*).