Manin Involutions for Elliptic Pencils and Discrete Integrable Systems

We contribute to the algebraic-geometric study of discrete integrable systems generated by planar birational maps: (a) we find geometric description of Manin involutions for elliptic pencils consisting of curves of higher degree, birationally equivalent to cubic pencils (Halphen pencils of index 1), and (b) we characterize special geometry of base points ensuring that certain compositions of Manin involutions are integrable maps of low degree (quadratic Cremona maps). In particular, we identify some integrable Kahan discretizations as compositions of Manin involutions for elliptic pencils of higher degree.

On non-autonomous differential-difference AKP, BKP and CKP equations

Based on the direct linearization framework of the discrete Kadomtsev–Petviashvili-type equations presented in the work of Fu & Nijhoff (Fu W, Nijhoff FW. 2017 Direct linearizing transform for three-dimensional discrete integrable systems: the lattice AKP, BKP and CKP equations. Proc. R. Soc. A 473 , 20160915 ( doi:10.1098/rspa.2016.0915 )), six novel non-autonomous differential-difference equations are established, including three in the AKP class, two in the BKP class and one in the CKP class. In particular, one in the BKP class and the one in the CKP class are both in (2 + 2)-dimensional form. All the six models are integrable in the sense of having the same linear integral equation representations as those of their associated discrete Kadomtsev–Petviashvili-type equations, which guarantees the existence of soliton-type solutions and the multi-dimensional consistency of these new equations from the viewpoint of the direct linearization.

Direct linearization approach to discrete integrable systems associated with ℤ 𝒩 graded Lax pairs

Fordy and Xenitidis [ J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 50 (2017) 165205. ( doi:10.1088/1751-8121/aa639a )] recently proposed a large class of discrete integrable systems which include a number of novel integrable difference equations, from the perspective of Z N graded Lax pairs, without providing solutions. In this paper, we establish the link between the Fordy–Xenitidis (FX) discrete systems in coprime case and linear integral equations in certain form, which reveals solution structure of these equations. The bilinear form of the FX integrable difference equations is also presented together with the associated general tau function. Furthermore, the solution structure explains the connections between the FX novel models and the discrete Gel’fand–Dikii hierarchy.

Integrable Properties of a Variant of the Discrete Hungry Toda Equations and Their Relationship to Eigenpairs of Band Matrices

The Toda equation and its variants are studied in the filed of integrable systems. One particularly generalized time discretisation of the Toda equation is known as the discrete hungry Toda (dhToda) equation, which has two main variants referred to as the dhTodaI equation and dhTodaII equation. The dhToda equations have both been shown to be applicable to the computation of eigenvalues of totally nonnegative (TN) matrices, which are matrices without negative minors. The dhTodaI equation has been investigated with respect to the properties of integrable systems, but the dhTodaII equation has not. Explicit solutions using determinants and matrix representations called Lax pairs are often considered as symbolic properties of discrete integrable systems. In this paper, we clarify the determinant solution and Lax pair of the dhTodaII equation by focusing on an infinite sequence. We show that the resulting determinant solution firmly covers the general solution to the dhTodaII equation, and provide an asymptotic analysis of the general solution as discrete-time variable goes to infinity.