The Twistor Theory of Equations of KdV Type: I
1994
This article is the first of two concerned with the development of the theory of equations of KdV type from the point of view of twistor theory and the self-dual Yang-Mills equations. A hierarchy on the self-dual Yang-Mills equations is introduced and it is shown that a certain reduction of this hierarchy is equivalent to the ^-generalized KdV-hierarchy. It also emerges that each flow of the «-KdV hierarchy is a reduction of the self-dual Yang-Mills equations with gauge group SLW. It is further shown that solutions of the self-dual Yang-Mills hierarchy and their reductions arise via a generalized Ward transform from holomorphic vector bundles over a twistor space. Explicit examples of such bundles are given and the Ward transform is implemented to yield a large class of explicit solutions of the «-KdV equations. It is also shown that the construction of Segal and Wilson of solutions of the n-KdV equations from loop groups is contained in our approach as an ansatz for the construction of a class of holomorphic bundles on twistor space. A summary of the results of the second part of this work appears in the Intro- duction.
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