KP solitons and total positivity for the Grassmannian

DOI10.1007/S00222-014-0506-3zbMATH Open1306.35109arXiv1106.0023OpenAlexW2964272847MaRDI QIDQ481111FDOQ481111

Lauren K. Williams, Yuji Kodama

Publication date: 12 December 2014

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Soliton solutions of the KP equation have been studied since 1970, when Kadomtsev and Petviashvili proposed a two-dimensional dispersive wave equation now known as the KP equation. It is well-known that one can use the Wronskian method to construct a soliton solution to the KP equation from each point of the real Grassmannian Gr_kn. More recently several authors have studied the regular solutions that one obtains in this way: these come from points of the totally non-negative part of the Grassmannian (Gr_kn)_{>= 0}. In this paper we exhibit a surprising connection between the theory of total positivity for the Grassmannian, and the structure of regular soliton solutions to the KP equation. By exploiting this connection, we obtain new insights into the structure of KP solitons, as well as new interpretations of the combinatorial objects indexing cells of (Gr_kn)_{>= 0}. In particular, we completely classify the spatial patterns of the soliton solutions coming from (Gr_2n)_{>0}, as well as those coming from (Gr_kn)_{>= 0} when the absolute value of the time parameter is sufficiently large. We also demonstrate an intriguing connection between soliton graphs for (Gr_kn)_{>0} and the cluster algebras of Fomin and Zelevinsky, and we use this connection to solve the inverse problem for generic KP solitons coming from (Gr_kn)_{>0}. Finally we construct all the soliton graphs for (Gr_2n)_{>0} using the triangulations of n-gon.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.0023

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zbMATH Keywords

regular solutionsline-solitonsoliton graphWronskian method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Soliton solutions (35C08) Soliton equations (35Q51) KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) Cluster algebras (13F60) Relationships between algebraic curves and integrable systems (14H70)

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