KdV hierarchy
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Let : be translation operator defined on real valued functions as :. Let : be set of all Analytic Functions that satisfy :, i.e. periodic functions of period 1. For each :, define an operator
on the space of smooth functions on :. We define the Bloch spectrum : to be the set of : so that there is a nonzero function : with : and :. The KdV hierarchy is a sequence of nonlinear differential operators : so that for any : we have an analytic function : and we define : to be : and
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then : is independent of :.