The Krichever map, vector bundles over algebraic curves, and Heisenberg algebras (Q2367962)

The authors study an interconnection between two approaches in the theory of integrable nonlinear evolution equations. In the algebraic geometry approach one starts with an algebraic curve and then builds solutions of the integrable evolution equations in terms of theta-functions identifying these solutions later with points of infinite dimensional Grassmannian or, which is equivalent, with orbits of appropriate infinite dimensional groups. In the group theory approach one begins with a Kac- Moody algebra, a Heisenberg subalgebra and an integrated irreducible representation in terms of vertex operators and then constructs an orbit of the associated group through the highest weight vector connecting later the defining equation of the orbit with the integrable nonlinear evolution equation. The authors investigate how in the framework of the latter approach it is possible for every point of the Grassmannian and every choice of a Heisenberg algebra to build an algebraic curve in terms of a cotangent bundle of the Grassmannian. In particular they study the significance of the choice of the Heisenberg algebra for the construction of the algebraic curve.