TY - JOUR AU - Mañas Baena, Manuel Enrique AU - Medina, Elena AU - Martínez Alonso, Luis PY - 2006 DO - 10.1088/0305-4470/39/10/008 SN - 0305-4470 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/51533 T2 - Journal of physics A: Mathematical and general AB - A new description of the universal Whitham hierarchy in terms of a factorization problem in the Lie group of canonical transformations is provided. This scheme allows us to give a natural description of dressing transformations, string equations and... LA - eng M2 - 2349 PB - IOP Publishing KW - Dispersionless Kp hierarchy KW - Toda hierarchy KW - Integrable hierarchies KW - Tau-function KW - Hodograph solutions KW - Benney equations KW - Conformal-maps KW - Reductions KW - Growth KW - Limit TI - On the Whitham hierarchy: dressing scheme, string equations and additional symmetries TY - journal article VL - 39 ER -