KdV hierarchy
In mathematics, the KdV hierarchy is an infinite sequence of partial differential equations which starts with the Korteweg–de Vries equation.
Let
be translation operator defined on real valued functions as
. Let
be set of all analytic functions that satisfy
, i.e. periodic functions of period 1. For each
, define an operator
on the space of smooth functions on
. We define the Bloch spectrum
to be the set of
such that there is a nonzero function
with
and
. The KdV hierarchy is a sequence of nonlinear differential operators
such that for any
we have an analytic function
and we define
to be
and
, then
is independent of
.
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