Regular solution and lattice Miura transformation of bigraded Toda hierarchy

Abstract

The authors give finite dimensional exponential solutions of the bigraded Toda hierarchy (BTH). As a specific example of exponential solutions of the BTH, the authors consider a regular solution for the (1, 2)-BTH with a 3 × 3-sized Lax matrix, and discuss some geometric structures of the solution from which the difference between the (1, 2)-BTH and the original Toda hierarchy is shown. After this, the authors construct another kind of Lax representation of (N, 1)-BTH which does not use the fractional operator of Lax operator. Then the authors introduce the lattice Miura transformation of (N, 1)-BTH which leads to equations depending on one field, and meanwhile some specific examples which contain the Volterra lattice equation (a useful ecological competition model) are given.