Solutions to the KP hierarchy with an elliptic background

A class of “elliptic soliton” solutions of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili hierarchy, which includes a determinantal solution of Li and Zhang, is described in terms of pseudo-differential operator formulation. In our approach, the Li-Zhang solution is obtained by repeatedly applying the Darboux transformation to a stationary solution. Real-valued solutions are discussed and various examples that display web-like patterns are presented.