scientific article; zbMATH DE number 16350

Scattering theory for PDEs (35P25) KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests (37J35) Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10)

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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0721.00016.] The results on Inverse Scattering in multidimensions and on the algebraic properties of equations in 2+1 (i.e. two spatial and one temporal) dimensions should be of particular interest: With respect to algebraic properties of equations in 2+1 we note that the question of finding the recursion operator and the bi-Hamiltonian formulation of these equations has remained open for a rather long time. It was even doubted in the literature if the relevant results in 1+1 could be extended to 2+1. P. M. Santini and the author have recently shown that equations in 2+1 solvable via the inverse scattering transform are bi-Hamiltonian systems. They have also given explicitly the recursion and bi-Hamiltonian operators for large classes of equations in 2+1, including the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (a two dimensional analogue of the Korteweg-de Vries) and the Davey- Stewartson (a two dimensional analogue of the nonlinear Schrödinger) equations. In this paper I emphasize the basic ideas and results. Furthermore an attempt is made to put these results into perspective. Details can be found in the cited papers.

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