Self-dual systems, their symmetries and reductions to the Bogoyavlensky lattice (Q2012899)

Recently, in the works [``\(\mathbb{Z}_{N}\) graded discrete Lax pairs and discrete integrable systems'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:1411.6059}] and [J. Phys. A, Math. Theor. 50, No. 16, Article ID 165205, 30 p. (2017; Zbl 1367.37055)] the authors introduced a class of \(\mathbb{Z}_{N}\)-graded discrete Lax pairs and studied the associated discrete integrable systems. Many well-known examples belong to that scheme for \(N = 2\), so, for \(N \geq 3\), some of their systems may be regarded as generalisations of these. In this paper the authors give a short review of their considerations and discuss the general framework for the derivation of continuous flows compatible with our discrete Lax pairs. These derivations lead to differential-difference equations which define generalised symmetries of their systems. Here they are interested in the particular subclass of self-dual discrete integrable systems, which exist only for \(N\) odd, and derive their lowest order generalised symmetries which are of order one. They also derive corresponding master symmetries which allow to construct infinite hierarchies of symmetries of increasing orders. Section \(2\) contains a short review of the framework, the fully discrete Lax pairs along with the corresponding systems of difference equations, and Section 3 discusses continuous flows and symmetries. The following section discusses the self-dual case and the reduction of these systems. It also presents the systems and corresponding reductions for \(N = 3, 5\) and \(7\). Section \(5\) presents the Miura transformations for the reduced systems in \(N = 3\) and \(5\), and discusses the general formulation of these transformations for any dimension \(N\).