Korteweg–de Vries Flows with General Initial Conditions (Mathematical Physics Studies)

The present book offers a new approach to the study of the KdV equation, which treats decaying initial data and oscillating data in a unified manner. The author's method is to represent the tau functions introduced by Hirota-Sato and developed by Segal-Wilson later in terms of the Weyl-Titchmarsh functions (WT functions, in short) for the underlying Schrödinger operators. The main result is stated by a class of WT functions satisfying some of the asymptotic behavior along a curve approaching the spectrum of the Schrödinger operators at +∞ in an order of -(n-1/2)for the nth KdV equation. This class contains many oscillating potentials (initial data) as well as decaying ones. Especially bounded smooth ergodic potentials are included, and under certain conditions on the potentials, the associated Schrödinger operators have dense point spectrum. This provides a mathematical foundation for the study of the soliton turbulence problem initiated by Zakharov, which was the author's motivation for extending the class of initial data in this book. A large class of almost periodic potentials is also included in these ergodic potentials. P. Deift has conjectured that any solutions to the KdV equation starting from nearly periodic initial data are almost periodic in time. Therefore, our result yields a foundation for this conjecture.
For the reader's benefit, the author has included here (1) a basic knowledge of direct and inverse spectral problem for 1D Schrödinger operators, including the notion of the WT functions; (2)Sato's Grassmann manifold method revised by Segal-Wilson; and (3) basic results of ergodic Schrödinger operators.
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