CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY, cilt.10, sa.6, ss.579-585, 2002 (SCI-Expanded)
It is shown that it is possible to write down tau functions for the $n$-component KP hierarchy in terms of non-abelian theta functions. This is a generalization of the rank 1 situation; that is, the relation of theta functions of Jacobians and tau functions for the KP hierarchy.