Frobenius manifolds and central invariants for the Drinfeld-Sokolov bihamiltonian structures (Q947768)

The authors of this very interesting paper study bihamiltonian structures of the form \[ \{w^i(x),w^j(y)\}_a=\{w^i(x),w^j(y)\}_a^{[0]}+\sum\limits_{k\geq 1}\epsilon^k\{w^i(x),w^j(y)\}_a^{[k]}, \] \[ \{w^i(x),w^j(y)\}_a^{[k]}=\sum\limits_{k=0}^{k+1}A_{k,l;a}^{ij}(w(x);w_x(x),...,w^{(l)}(x))\delta^{k-l+1}(x-y), \] where \(i,j=1,2,...,n\), \(a=1,2\), \(w=(w^1,w^{2},...,w^{n})\in M\) for some \(n\)-dimensional manifold \(M\) that is assumed to be diffeomorphic to an open ball. The dependent variables \(w^1,w^{2},...,w^{n}\) are local coordinates on \(M\). The coefficients \(A_{k,l;a}^{ij}\) are homogeneous elements of degree \(l\) of the graded ring \(\mathcal{B}\) of polynomial functions on a jet bundle of \(M\). The main result is the complete description of the flat pencils of metrics and computation of the central invariants for the Drinfeld-Sokolov bihamiltonian structures for all untwisted affine Lie algebras. It is shown that the flat pencils of metrics are obtained from the Frobenius structures on the orbit spaces of the corresponding Weyl groups. The central invariants are proved to be all constants. It turns out that the Drinfeld-Sokolov integrable hierarchies for the \(A\), \(D\) and \(E\) series are equivalent to an integrable hierarchy of the topological type.