The Miura map between the dispersionless KP and dispersionless modified KP
hierarchies is investigated. It is shown that the Miura map is canonical wi
th respect to their bi-Hamiltonian structures. Moreover, inspired by the wo
rks of Takasaki and Takebe, the twistor construction of solution structure
for the dispersionless modified KP hierarchy is given. (C) 2000 American In
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