Tau function and Virasoro action for the \(n\times n\) KdV hierarchy (Q5962906)

The authors published a series of papers to describe a uniform geometric framework in which many integrable systems are included using a splitting of an infinite dimensional group as positive and negative Volterra subgroups. Given a negative Voterra group element, there is a formal inverse scattering solution of the integrable hierarchy. In this paper, they construct a natural Virasoro action on tau functions of \(n\times n\) KdV hierarchy on the space of order \(n\) linear differential operators on the line from a simple Virasoro action on the negative Voterra group. This corresponds to the known Virasoro action on the Gelfand-Dickey hierarchy in terms of pseudo-differential operators under the bijection.