The whitham equations revisited

DOI10.1080/00036819708840541zbMath0887.14011arXivsolv-int/9612010OpenAlexW1580612048WikidataQ58176271 ScholiaQ58176271MaRDI QIDQ4351450

Robert W. Carroll, Jen-Hsu Chang

Publication date: 25 May 1998

Published in: Applicable Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/solv-int/9612010

zbMATH Keywords

Riemann surfacesBaker-Akhiezer functionKdV equationWhitham equationscompletely integrable partial differential equations\(KP\)-equationabelian functions of algebraic curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10) Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests (37J35) Jacobians, Prym varieties (14H40) Riemann surfaces; Weierstrass points; gap sequences (14H55) Differentials on Riemann surfaces (30F30) Algebraic functions and function fields in algebraic geometry (14H05)

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