Compatible Poisson-Lie structures on the loop group of \(\text{SL}_ 2\) (Q2563438)

The concept of bi-Hamiltonian structures on manifolds is known to play an important role in the study of classical integrable systems. An example of bi-Hamiltonian manifolds comes from the theory of Poisson-Lie groups. The rational and trigonometric structures on loop groups are compatible. Accordingly a natural question arises: Find higher compatible Poisson structures on these groups. In this letter the authors answer this question in the \(SL_2\) case. They introduce a 1-parameter family of \(r\)-matrices on the loop algebra of \(sl_2\) which defines a family of compatible Poisson structures on the associated loop group. By an operation of shifting of the spectral parameter, the \(r\)-matrices degenerate into the rational and trigonometric ones.