The tau functions of the constrained CKP hierarchy

Abstract

The CKP hierarchy is one important sub-hierarchy of the KP hierarchy, which is quite special due to its tau function. Here we construct the tau functions for the constrained CKP hierarchy $(L^k)_{<0}=\sum_{i=1}^{m}\big(q_{1,i}\partial^{-1}q_{2,i}-(-1)^kq_{2,i}\partial^{-1}q_{1,i}\big)$ with $k$ being odd or even positive integer by using the CKP Darboux transformations.