RECURSION OPERATORS FOR KP,mKP AND HARRY DYM HIERARCHIES

In this paper, we give a unified construction of the recursion operators from the Lax representation for three integrable hierarchies: Kadomtsev–Petviashvili (KP), modified Kadomtsev–Petviashvili (mKP) and Harry Dym under n-reduction. This shows a new inherent relationship between them. To illustrate our construction, the recursion operator are calculated explicitly for 2-reduction and 3-reduction.