Drinfeld-Sokolov hierarchies and diagram automorphisms of affine Kac-Moody algebras (Q1986588)

The results of the paper are related to the hierarchy of integrable Hamiltonian evolutionary PDEs of Korteweg-de Vries type constructed by \textit{V. G. Drinfel'd} and \textit{V. V. Sokolov} [Itogi Nauki Tekh., Ser. Sovrem. Probl. Mat. 24, 81--180 (1984; Zbl 0558.58027)] in the framework of affine Kac-Moody algebras with a marked vertex of its Dynkin diagram. For a diagram automorphism of an affine Kac-Moody algebra whose corresponding folded diagram is still an affine Dynkin diagram, the authors show that their corresponding Drinfeld-Sokolov hierarchy admits an induced automorphism. The hierarchy associated to the affine Kac-Moody algebra that corresponds to the folded Dynkin diagram is then obtained from the invariant sub-hierarchy of the original hierarchy.