Reflectionless potentials and soliton series of the KdV equation

Potentials of the Schroedinger equation, slowly decreasing at infinity, generate an infinite discrete spectrum converging to zero. The inverse scattering problem in the class of such potentials is solved in a constructive way similarly to the classical soliton theory. An infinite-dimensional system arising from Backlund transformations over soliton solutions plays the role of a determinant representation of the potential. The asymptotics at infinity are derived by use of the Poisson summation formula. An application to the long-time asymptotics of the solution of the Korteweg-de Vries equation is considered. 13 refs