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Quasiconformal mappings and solutions of the dispersionless KP hierarchy

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2002-11
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A ∂¯formalism for studying dispersionless integrable hierarchies is applied to the dispersionless KP (dKP) hierarchy. We relate this formalism to the theory of quasiconformal mappings on the plane and present some classes of explicit solutions of the dKP hierarch.
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©2002 Plenum Publishing Corporation. International Conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Dynamical Systems. (15. 2001. Cambridge, Inglaterrad). One of the authors (B. K.) is grateful to the organizers of the program “Integrable Systems” for the support and was also supported in part by the COFIN 2000 “Sintesi.” The stay of L. M. A. at Cambridge University as a BBV visiting professor was supported by the Fundaci´on Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria. E. M. was supported in part by the CICYT (Project No. PB98-0821).
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