Invariant Manifolds of Hyperbolic Integrable Equations and their Applications

We assign some kind of invariant manifolds to a given integrable PDE (its discrete or semidiscrete variant). First, we linearize the equation around its arbitrary solution u. Then we construct a differential (respectively, difference) equation compatible with the linearized equation for any choice of u. This equation defines a surface called a generalized invariant manifold. In a sense, the manifold generalizes the symmetry, which is also a solution to the linearized equation. In this paper, we concentrate on continuous and discrete models of hyperbolic type. It is known that such kinds of equations have two hierarchies of symmetries, corresponding to the characteristic directions. We have shown that a properly chosen generalized invariant manifold allows one to construct recursion operators that generate these symmetries. It is surprising that both recursion operators are related to different parametrizations of the same invariant manifold. Therefore, knowing one of the recursion operators for the hyperbolic type integrable equation (having no pseudo-constants) we can immediately find the second one. © 2021, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.