Applications of loop groups and standard modules to Jacobians and theta functions of isospectral curves (Q1816554)

Let \(L(z)\) be an element of \(M_n (\mathbb{C} [z, z^{-1} ])\). In this work we study the structure of isospectral curves given by \(f(z, \lambda) =0\), \(f(z, \lambda)= \text{det} (L(z)- \lambda)\), their Jacobians and the relationship between standard modules and the corresponding theta functions. We assume that \(f(z, \lambda)\) is irreducible and nonsingular for \(f(z, \lambda)=0\) and \(z\in \mathbb{C}^*\). The element \(L(z)\) will be called good, if the centralizers \({\mathfrak C}_\pm (L)\) of \(L (z)\) in \(M_n (\mathbb{C}[ z])\) (resp. \(M_n (\mathbb{C} [z^{-1} ]))\) are the integral closure of \(\mathbb{C}[ z,z^p L]\) (resp. \(M_n (\mathbb{C} [z^{-1}, z^{-q} L]))\) in \(M_n (\mathbb{C} [z, z^{-1}])\). The class of curves we analyze includes nonsingular curves and the isospectral curve of the periodic Toda lattice. The latter curve is represented by a ``tridiagonal'' matrix \(L(z)\). The Jacobian variety is expressed as a quotient of certain centralizers of \(L(z)\) which are computed in a completion \(M_n (A_w)\) of \(M_n (\mathbb{C} [z, z^{-1} ])\). If we assume further that \(L(z)\) is an element of \(SL_n (\mathbb{C} [z, z^{-1} ])\) then the basic module of the universal central extension \(\widehat {SL}_n (A_w)\) of \(SL_n (A_w)\) is employed to define a function \(\Theta\). This function \(\Theta\) is defined in terms of representative functions on the ``Lie theoretic'' Jacobian and satisfies the functional equation of theta functions.