Integrable dispersionless PDEs arising as commutation condition of pairs of vector fields

In this paper we review some results about the theory of integrable dispersionless PDEs arising as commutation condition of pairs of one-parameter families of vector fields, developed by the authors during the last years. We review, in particular, the basic formal aspects of a novel Inverse Spectral Transform including, as inverse problem, a nonlinear Riemann – Hilbert (NRH) problem, allowing one i) to solve the Cauchy problem for the target PDE; ii) to construct classes of RH spectral data for which the NRH problem is exactly solvable, corresponding to distinguished examples of exact implicit solutions of the target PDE; iii) to construct the longtime behavior of the solutions of such PDE; iv) to establish in a simple way if a localized initial datum breaks at finite time and, if so, to study analytically how the multidimensional wave breaks. We also comment on the existence of recursion operators and Backlünd – Darboux transformations for integrable dispersionless PDEs.