Nonlocal Hamiltonian operators of hydrodynamic type with flat metrics, integrable hierarchies, and the associativity equations (Q2498304)

The author solves the problem of describing all nonlocal Hamiltonian operators of hydrodynamic type with flat metrics and establishes that this nontrivial special class of Hamiltonian operators is closely related to the associativity equations in two-dimensional topological quantum field and the theory of Frobenius manifolds. In particular, the author shows that any such Hamiltonian operator always defines integrable structural flows and generates integrable hierarchies of hydrodynamic type.