Bianchi-Bäcklund transforms and dressing actions, revisited (Q976830)

The Bianchi-Bäcklund transform is a complex surface assigned to a surface of constant Gauss curvature \(1\). In order to obtain a new CGC surface from the given one, one has to do two successive Bianchi-Bäcklund transformations matched in a particular way. Such a Bianchi-Bäcklund procedure amounts to dressing the extended framing associated to the (harmonic) Gauss map by a certain dressing matrix, as was shown in [\textit{A. Mahler}, Bianchi-Bäcklund and dressing transformations on constant mean curvature surfaces. PhD thesis, University of Toledo (2002)]. The current paper follows a different approach to this result. For certain ``simple factors'', the dressing action can be computed explicitly; and each single Bianchi-Bäcklund transform corresponds to a dressing action for a certain simple factor. Moreover, some relation to the sinh-Gordon equation can be exploited to produce all Bianchi-Bäcklund transformations from more simple ones.