The involutive system of functionals associated by Gel’fand and Dikii to a nth‐order scalar differential operator is obtained from a set of solutions of a generalized Riccati equation. These solutions allow us to explain the involutive character of the system of functionals in terms of the Riccati equation properties only.

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