darboux transformation for classical acoustic spectral problem达布变换为古典声学谱问题.pdfVIP

IJMMS 2003:49, 3123–3142 PII. S016117120330105X © Hindawi Publishing Corp. DARBOUX TRANSFORMATION FOR CLASSICAL ACOUSTIC SPECTRAL PROBLEM A. A. YUROVA, A. V. YUROV, and M. RUDNEV Received 3 January 2002 We study discrete isospectral symmetries for the classical acoustic spectral prob- lem in spatial dimensions one and two by developing a Darboux (Moutard) trans- formation formalism for this problem. The procedure follows steps similar to those for the Schrödinger operator. However, there is no one-to-one correspon- dence between the two problems. The technique developed enables one to con- struct new families of integrable potentials for the acoustic problem, in addition to those already known. The acoustic problem produces a nonlinear Harry Dym PDE. Using the technique, we reproduce a pair of simple soliton solutions of this equation. These solutions are further used to construct a new positon solution for this PDE. Furthermore, using the dressing-chain approach, we build a modi- fied Harry Dym equation together with its LA pair. As an application, we construct some singular and nonsingular integrable potentials (dielectric permitivity) for the Maxwell equations in a 2D inhomogeneous medium. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 35Q51, 35Q53, 35Q55, 35Q58, 35Q60, 37K10, 37K35, 37K40. 1. Introduction. This paper develops the Darboux transformation and dressing-chain formalism for the classical acoustic spectral problem (referred to below just as the “acoustic problem”) and the related Harry Dym (HD) equa- tion. It treats the problem in the same vein as it is done for the Schrödinger operator and the related KdV (mKdV) hierarchies. The acoustic problem and the Schrödinger operator are closely connected.