The quaternionic KP hierarchy and conformally immersed 2-tori in the 4-sphere (Q719172)

This work is concerned with the quaternionic KP hierarchy, which is equivalent to the Davey-Stewartson II hierarchy. This article studies its relationship with the theory of conformally immersed tori in the 4-sphere via quaternionic holomorphic geometry. The Sato-Segal-Wilson construction of KP solutions is adapted to this setting and the connection with quaternionic holomorphic curves is made. Then the author compares three different notions of ``spectral curve'': the QKP spectral curve; the Floquet multiplier spectral curve for the related Dirac operator; and the curve parameterising Darboux transforms of a conformal 2-torus in the 4-sphere.