The complex geometry of weak piecewise smooth solutions of integrable nonlinear PDE's of shallow water and Dym type (Q5953646)

This paper is devoted to the algebraic-geometric method for nonlinear integrable PDE's and presents explicit theta-functional expressions for piecewise smooth weak solutions for a class of nonlinear PDE's associated to nonlinear subvarieties of hyperelliptic Jacobians. The authors find finite dimensional integrable Hamiltonian dynamical systems describing the motion of peaks in the finite-gap as well as the limiting (soliton) cases, and solve them exactly. The dynamics of the peaks are also obtained by using Jacobi inversion problems. The authors also relate their method to the shock wave approach for weak solutions of wave equations by determining jump conditions at the peak location.