Totally Nonnegative Pfaffian for Solitons in BKP Equation

Abstract: The BKP equation is obtained from the reduction of B type in the KP hierarchy under the orthogonal type transformation group for the KP equation. The skew Schur Q functions can be used to construct the Tau functions of solitons in the BKP equation. Then the totally nonnegative Pfaffian can be defined via the skew Schur Q functions to obtain nonsingular line solitons solution in the BKP equation. The totally nonnegative Pfaffians are investigated. The line solitons interact to form web like structure in the near field region and their resonances appearing in soliton graph could be investigated by the totally nonnegative Pfaffians.