A new approach to the Lenard-Magri scheme of integrability (Q2509620)

Let \(\mathcal W= \mathcal W_{-1} \oplus \mathcal W_0\oplus \mathcal W_1\oplus \cdots\) be a \(\mathbb Z\)-graded Lie superalgebra of variational polyvector fields over an algebra of differental functions \(\mathcal V\). Some of the techniques for proving integrability of Hamiltonian equations is based on the Lenard-Magri scheme of integrability. Given an evolution equation with two bi-Hamiltonian compatible Poisson structures \(H_0\), \(H_1\) on \(\mathcal V\), this scheme consists of finding a sequence of local functionals satisfying some recursive conditions and then guarantees integrals of motion in involution with respect to the two skew-symmetric brackets \( \{\,, \}_0\) and \(\{\,, \}_1\) on \(\mathcal W_{-1}\) given by \(\{f, g\}_i= [[H_i, f], g]\), for \(i=0, 1\). In the present paper, the authors prove integrability for some PDEs. They develop a new method based on the notion of strongly skew-adjoint differential operators on the Lie superalgebra of the variational polyvector fields.