Abstract: | For linear problems which are associated with known, exactly integrable nonlinear evolution equations, one gives the corresponding integrodifferential Λ-operators. Relative to the expansions with respect to the elgenfunctions of Λ-operators, the method of the inverse scattering problem can be considered as the analog of the Fourier transform of linear problems, while the Λ-operators are the analogues of the differentiation operator. One considers the equations: Koteweg-de Vries, the nonlinear Schrödinger equations, the nonlinear Schrödinger equations with a derivative, the system of three waves, the matricial analog of the KdV equation, the Toda chain equation. |