Department of Mathematics and Statistics 620-629 Integrable Models
Semester 2, 2009



Here is a partial list, that I plan to gradually add to, of very good textbooks on integrable models. Only self-contained textbook style texts will be included.

Introduction to Classical Integrable Systems by O Babelon, D Bernard and M Talon, is the most comprehensive introduction to classical integrable models. It covers basically all approaches to the theory, and more importantly discusses the relationships between them. The authors try very hard to make the book self contained, but the breadth of the material covered makes it at times rather advanced reading.

The Direct Method in Soliton Theory by R Hirota is an elementary introduction to Sato's theory. It contains explicit caculations with emphasis on the Toda lattice. The book doesn't go as deeply into the theory as Solitons by Miwa, Jimbo and Date.

Soliton Equations and Hamiltonian Systems by L A Dickey is a very well written, very comprehensive introduction to classical integrable models. Contains topics and models that I haven't seen discussed in any detail anywhere else.

Solitons, Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Inverse Scattering by M A Ablowitz and P A Clarkson, is a comprehensive introduction to the inverse scattering transform. It also includes an introduction to the Painleve equations.

Integrability: The Seiberg-Witten and Witham Equations edited by H W Braden and I M Krichever, is a collection of (mostly) introductory papers on applications of classical integrable models in modern mathematical physics of the string theory type. Highly recommended to get an overview of this research.

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