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Darboux Coverings and Rational Reductions of the KP Hierarchy

Paolo Casati, Gregorio Falqui, Franco Magri, Marco Pedroni

solv-intarXiv:solv-int/9610002

Abstract

We use the method of Darboux coverings to discuss the invariant submanifolds of the KP equations, presented as conservation laws in the space of monic Laurent series in the spectral parameter (the space of the Hamiltonian densities). We identify a special class of these submanifolds with the rational invariant submanifolds entering matrix models of 2D--gravity, recently characterized by Dickey and Krichever. Four examples of the general procedure are provided.

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