This book brings together several aspects of soliton theory currently available only in research papers. Emphasis is given to the multi-dimensional problems which arise and includes inverse scattering in multi-dimensions, integrable nonlinear evolution equations in multi-dimensions and the dbar method.

1. Introduction; 2. Inverse scattering for the Korteweg-de Vries equation; 3. General inverse scattering in one dimension; 4. Inverse scattering for integro-differential equations; 5. Inverse scattering in two dimensions; 6. Inverse scattering in multidimensions; 7. The Painleve equations; 8. Discussion and open problems; Appendix A: Remarks on Riemann-Hilbert problems; Appendix B: Remarks on problems; References; Subject index; Author index.