Integrable Discrete Nonautonomous Quad-equations as B\"acklund Auto-transformations for Known Volterra and Toda Type Semidiscrete Equations

Abstract

We construct integrable discrete nonautonomous quad-equations as B\"acklund auto-transformations for known Volterra and Toda type semidiscrete equations, some of which are also nonautonomous. Additional examples of this kind are found by using transformations of discrete equations which are invertible on their solutions. In this way we obtain integrable examples of different types: discrete analogs of the sine-Gordon equation, the Liouville equation and the dressing chain of Shabat. For Liouville type equations we construct general solutions, using a specific linearization. For sine-Gordon type equations we find generalized symmetries, conservation laws and $L-A$ pairs.