Heat kernel expansions on the integers and the Toda lattice hierarchy

We consider the heat equation u _t = Lu where L is a second-order difference operator in a discrete variable n. The fundamental solution has an expansion in terms of the Bessel functions of imaginary argument. The coefficients α _k (n, m) in this expansion are analogs of Hadamard’s coefficients for the (continuous) Schr?dinger operator. We derive an explicit formula for α _k in terms of the wave and the adjoint wave functions of the Toda lattice hierarchy. As a first application of this result, we prove that the values of these coefficients on the diagonals n = m and n = m + 1 define a hierarchy of differential-difference equations which is equivalent to the Toda lattice hierarchy. Using this fact and the correspondence between commutative rings of difference operators and algebraic curves we show that the fundamental solution can be summed up, giving a finite formula involving only two Bessel functions with polynomial coefficients in the time variable t, if and only if the operator L belongs to the family of bispectral operators constructed in [18].      

The modular hierarchy of the Toda lattice

The modular vector field plays an important role in the theory of Poisson manifolds and is intimately connected with the Poisson cohomology of the space. In this paper we investigate its significance in the theory of integrable systems. We illustrate in detail the case of the Toda lattice both in Flaschka and natural coordinates.     

Infinite-dimensional Frobenius manifolds underlying the Toda lattice hierarchy

Following the approach of Carlet et al. (2011) [9], we construct a class of infinite-dimensional Frobenius manifolds underlying the Toda lattice hierarchy, which are defined on the space of pairs of meromorphic functions with possibly higher-order poles at the origin and at infinity. We also show a connection between these infinite-dimensional Frobenius manifolds and the finite-dimensional Frobenius manifolds on the orbit space of extended affine Weyl groups of type A defined by Dubrovin and Zhang.     

Heat kernel expansions in vector bundles

Let M be a complete connected smooth (compact) Riemannian manifold of dimension n. Let Π:V→M be a smooth vector bundle over M. Let be a second order differential operator on M, where Δ is a Laplace-Type operator on the sections of the vector bundle V and b a smooth vector field on M. Let k_t(−,−) be the heat kernel of V relative to L. In this paper we will derive an exact and an asymptotic expansion for k_t(x,y₀) where y₀ is the center of normal coordinates defined on M, x is a point in the normal neighborhood centered at y₀. The leading coefficients of the expansion are then computed at x=y₀ in terms of the linear and quadratic Riemannian curvature invariants of the Riemannian manifold M, of the vector bundle V, and of the vector bundle section ? and its derivatives.We end by comparing our results with those of previous authors (I. Avramidi, P. Gilkey, and McKean-Singer).     

Generalized dressing method for the extended two-dimensional Toda lattice hierarchy and its reductions

In this paper, we solve the extended two-dimensional Toda lattice hierarchy (ex2DTLH) by the generalized dressing method developed in Liu-Lin-Jin-Zeng (2009). General Casoratian determinant solutions for this hierarchy are obtained. In particular, explicit solutions of soliton-type are formulated by using the τ-function in the form of exponential functions. The periodic reduction and one-dimensional reduction of ex2DTLH are studied by finding the constraints. Many reduced systems are shown, including the pe...     

Fermionic construction of the partition function for multimatrix models and the multicomponent Toda lattice hierarchy

We use p-component fermions, p = 2, 3,..., to represent (2p−2)N-fold integrals as a fermionic vacuum expectation. This yields a fermionic representation for various (2p−2)-matrix models. We discuss links with the p-component Kadomtsev-Petviashvili hierarchy and also with the p-component Toda lattice hierarchy. We show that the set of all but two flows of the p-component Toda lattice hierarchy changes standard matrix models to new ones. Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 152, No. 2, pp. 265–277, August, 2007.     

A note on the extended dispersionless Toda hierarchy

We derive dispersionless Hirota equations for the extended dispersionless Toda hierarchy. We show that the dispersionless Hirota equations are just a direct consequence of the genus-zero topological recurrence relation for the topological ?P¹ model. Using the dispersionless Hirota equations, we compute the twopoint functions and express the result in terms of Catalan numbers     

The solutions of Toda lattice and Volterra lattice

This paper presents a method to directly construct explicit exact solutions to nonlinear differential-difference equations. One applies this approach to solve Volterra lattice and Toda lattice and obtain their some special solutions which contain soliton solutions and periodic solutions.     

Pfaffianization of the two-dimensional Toda lattice

Pfaffianization procedure due to Hirota and Ohta is applied to the two-dimensional Toda lattice. As a result, a Pfaffianized version of the two-dimensional Toda lattice is found.     

Darboux transformation and two-dimensional Toda lattice

The Darboux transformation method is used to construct multisoliton solutions of an infinite two-dimensional Toda lattice, which depend on an arbitrary number of functional parameters.     

Noether and master symmetries for the Toda lattice

In this letter we examine the interrelation between Noether symmetries, master symmetries and recursion operators for the Toda lattice. The topics include invariants, higher Poisson brackets and the various relations they satisfy. For the case of two degrees of freedom we prove that the Toda lattice is super-integrable.     

Numerical analysis of the Toda lattice equations

Numerical solutions to three systems of integrable evolutionary equations from the Toda lattice hierarchy are analyzed. These are the classical Toda lattice, the second local dispersive flow, and the second extended dispersive flow. Special attention is given to the properties of soliton solutions. For the equations of the second local flow, two types of solitons interacting in a special manner are found. Solutions corresponding to various initial data are qualitatively outlined.     

Conservative methods for the Toda lattice equations

We are concerned with the numerical integration of the Todalattice equations by using different conservative methods. Numericalexperiments suggest that the global error for isospectral schemesdecreases exponentially with time but it is almost constantfor either symplectic or more general integrators. We providea theoretical explanation for these experimental findings.     

Finite heat kernel expansions on the real line

Let be the one-dimensional Schrödinger operator and let be the corresponding heat kernel. We prove that the th Hadamard's coefficient is equal to 0 if and only if there exists a differential operator of order such that . Thus, the heat expansion is finite if and only if the potential is a rational solution of the KdV hierarchy decaying at infinity studied by Adler and Moser (1978) and Airault, McKean and Moser (1977). Equivalently, one can characterize the corresponding operators as the rank one bispectral family given by Duistermaat and Grünbaum (1986).

     

Peakons,strings, and the finite Toda lattice

As is well‐known, the Toda lattice flow may be realized as an isospectral flow of a Jacobi matrix. A bijective map from a discrete string problem with positive weights to Jacobi matrices allows the pure peakon flow of the Camassa‐Holm equation to be realized as an isospectral Jacobi flow as well. This gives a unified picture of the Toda, Jacobi, and multipeakon flows, and leads to explicit solutions of the Jacobi flows via Stieltjes' determination of the continued fraction expansion of a Stieltjes transform. A simple modification produces a bijection from generalized strings, with positive and negative weights, to singular Jacobi matrices, and thus brings peakon/antipeakon flows into the same picture. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

A binary Darboux transformation for the Toda lattice

Binary Darboux transformations for the equations of the Toda lattice are constructed. Using them, broad classes of solutions are obtained: solutions on an increasing background and bound soliton solutions. The Zakharov-Shabat dressing method is considered.Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdelenniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova AN SSSR, Vol. 145, pp. 34–45, 1985.     

Bilinear biorthogonal expansions and the Dunkl kernel on the real line

We study an extension of the classical Paley–Wiener space structure, which is based on bilinear expansions of integral kernels into biorthogonal sequences of functions. The structure includes both sampling expansions and Fourier–Neumann type series as special cases, and it also provides a bilinear expansion for the Dunkl kernel (in the rank 1 case) which is a Dunkl analogue of Gegenbauer’s expansion of the plane wave and the corresponding sampling expansions. In fact, we show how to derive sampling and Fourier–Neumann type expansions from the results related to the bilinear expansion for the Dunkl kernel.