Singularities of type-Q ABS equations

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2011.073MaRDI QIDQ431339zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors James Atkinson

Publication date 26 June 2012

Published in SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.2675

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zbMATH Keywords

difference equationsglobal consistencyintegrable systemssingularities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Analyticity in context of PDEs (35A20) KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53)

Abstract: The type-Q equations lie on the top level of the hierarchy introduced by Adler, Bobenko and Suris (ABS) in their classification of discrete counterparts of KdV-type integrable partial differential equations. We ask what singularities are possible in the solutions of these equations, and examine the relationship between the singularities and the principal integrability feature of multidimensional consistency. These questions are considered in the global setting and therefore extend previous considerations of singularities which have been local. What emerges are some simple geometric criteria that determine the allowed singularities, and the interesting discovery that generically the presence of singularities leads to a breakdown in the global consistency of such systems despite their local consistency property. This failure to be globally consistent is quantified by introducing a natural notion of monodromy for isolated singularities.

Review text

Type-Q ABS equations is a class of discrete KdV type equations without singular values which, however, have a rich theory of singularities. The analysis of these equations shows that the singularities of the solutions are naturally associated, via the Bäcklund transformation, with the edges of the lattice. The main theorem of this paper describe geometrically a basic test for the admissibility of a singularity configuration.NEWLINENEWLINEThe global compatibility of an integrable system breaks down in the presence of isolated singularities and it is shown that the possibility of an isolated singularity to imply global inconsistency can be quantified by introducing the monodromy of the isolated singularity.

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• On the singularity structure of the discrete KdV equation
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• On decomposition of the ABS lattice equations and related Bäcklund transformations
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• On the singularities of the discrete Korteweg–deVries equation

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