A supersymmetric integrable system for arbitrary \(N\) (Q1813845)

Supersymmetric integrable dynamical systems are known in \(N = 1\) (extended super-) space, where they arise via Lax representations and Miura maps, and in \(N = 2\) space, where they appear in the context of super-extensions of the Virasoro algebra in two-dimensional conformal quantum field theory. Since these extensions are centerless for \(N > 4\), \(N > 4\) integrable systems are not believed to exist; there is a plausible integrable candidate for \(N = 3\). Below, we will see that, for any \(N\), the following system is a member of an infinite hierarchy of commuting flows with a common infinite set of polynomial conserved densities (c.d.'s) in involution: \[ \dot A_ n = A_{n + 1}' + A_ n' A_ 0 + \left (2 - {N\over 2}\right) A_ n A_ 0' - {1\over 2} {\mathcal D}_ r (A_ n) {\mathcal D}_ r (A_ 0),\quad n \in \mathbb{Z}_ +,\tag{1} \] where: \({\mathcal D}_ 1, \dots, {\mathcal D}_ N\) are odd (super) commuting derivations satisfying \[ {\mathcal D}_ r {\mathcal D}_{\overline{r}} + {\mathcal D}_{\overline{r}} D_ r = 2\delta_{r \overline{r}} \partial, \quad 1 \leq r,\;\overline{r} \leq N, \] \(\partial\) being an even derivation [\(\partial\) can be thought of as \(\partial/\partial x\), and \({\mathcal D}_ r\) as \(\partial/\partial \theta_ r + \theta_ r \partial, \theta_ 1, \dots, \theta_ N\) being the generators of the Grassmann algebra \(\Lambda(N)\)]; an overdot denotes the time derivative; \((\cdot)' := \partial(\cdot)\); \(A_ n\)'s are all even; summation is implied over nonfixed repeated indices. Apart from the terms with the odd derivations, system (1) is a system of the hydrodynamical type; to incorporate the odd derivations, in the next section we supersymmetrize the notion \{systems of hydrodynamical type in even spaces\}. Next, we discuss the Hamiltonian structure of system (1): this structure comes from the dual space of the loop algebra of the Lie algebra of vector fields on a (super) \(N\)-circle. Finally, the c.d.'s of the system (1) are given by an explicit combinatorial formula (43); the completeness and involutivity of these c.d.'s then follows at once by arguments similar to those deployed by the author in Lie Groups, Hist. Front. Appl., Ser. B 2, 357-358 (1984; Zbl 0594.76003).