S-functions, reductions and hodograph solutions of the r-th dispersionless modified KP and Dym hierarchies

We introduce an S-function formulation for the recently found r-th dispersionless modified KP and r-th dispersionless Dym hierarchies, giving also a connection of these $S$-functions with the Orlov functions of the hierarchies. Then, we discuss a reduction scheme for the hierarchies that together with the $S$-function formulation leads to hodograph systems for the associated solutions. We consider also the connection of these reductions with those of the dispersionless KP hierarchy and with hydrodynamic type systems. In particular, for the 1-component and 2-component reduction we derive, for both hierarchies, ample sets of examples of explicit solutions.Comment: 35 pages, uses AMS-Latex, Hyperref, Geometry, Array and Babel package

Integrable equations in nonlinear geometrical optics

Geometrical optics limit of the Maxwell equations for nonlinear media with the Cole-Cole dependence of dielectric function and magnetic permeability on the frequency is considered. It is shown that for media with slow variation along one axis such a limit gives rise to the dispersionless Veselov-Novikov equation for the refractive index. It is demonstrated that the Veselov-Novikov hierarchy is amenable to the quasiclassical DBAR-dressing method. Under more specific requirements for the media, one gets the dispersionless Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation. Geometrical optics interpretation of some solutions of the above equations is discussed.Comment: 33 pages, 7 figure

Dispersive deformations of hydrodynamic reductions of 2D dispersionless integrable systems

We demonstrate that hydrodynamic reductions of dispersionless integrable systems in 2+1 dimensions, such as the dispersionless Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (dKP) and dispersionless Toda lattice (dTl) equations, can be deformed into reductions of the corresponding dispersive counterparts. Modulo the Miura group, such deformations are unique. The requirement that any hydrodynamic reduction possesses a deformation of this kind imposes strong constraints on the structure of dispersive terms, suggesting an alternative approach to the integrability in 2+1 dimensions.Comment: 18 pages, section adde

On the solutions of the second heavenly and Pavlov equations

We have recently solved the inverse scattering problem for one parameter families of vector fields, and used this result to construct the formal solution of the Cauchy problem for a class of integrable nonlinear partial differential equations connected with the commutation of multidimensional vector fields, like the heavenly equation of Plebanski, the dispersionless Kadomtsev - Petviashvili (dKP) equation and the two-dimensional dispersionless Toda (2ddT) equation, as well as with the commutation of one dimensional vector fields, like the Pavlov equation. We also showed that the associated Riemann-Hilbert inverse problems are powerfull tools to establish if the solutions of the Cauchy problem break at finite time,to construct their longtime behaviour and characterize classes of implicit solutions. In this paper, using the above theory, we concentrate on the heavenly and Pavlov equations, i) establishing that their localized solutions evolve without breaking, unlike the cases of dKP and 2ddT; ii) constructing the longtime behaviour of the solutions of their Cauchy problems; iii) characterizing a distinguished class of implicit solutions of the heavenly equation.Comment: 16 pages. Submitted to the: Special issue on nonlinearity and geometry: connections with integrability of J. Phys. A: Math. and Theor., for the conference: Second Workshop on Nonlinearity and Geometry. Darboux day