An asymptotic expansion of the Casorati determinant and its application to discrete integrable systems

Abstract

The Hankel determinant appears in the representation of solutions to several integrable systems. Asymptotic expansion of the Hankel determinant thus plays a key role for investigating asymptotic analysis of such integrable system. In this paper, an asymptotic expansion formula of a certain Casorati determinant is presented as an extension of the Hankel case. It is also shown that an application of it to an asymptotic analysis of the discrete hungry Lotka-Volterra system, which is one of basic models in mathematical biology.