Classical A_ n-W-geometry

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

Abstract: This is a detailed development for the

A_{n}

case, of our previous article entitled "W-Geometries" to be published in Phys. Lett. It is shown that the

A_{n}

--W-geometry corresponds to chiral surfaces in

C P^{n}

. This is comes out by discussing 1) the extrinsic geometries of chiral surfaces (Frenet-Serret and Gauss-Codazzi equations) 2) the KP coordinates (W-parametrizations) of the target-manifold, and their fermionic (tau-function) description, 3) the intrinsic geometries of the associated chiral surfaces in the Grassmannians, and the associated higher instanton- numbers of W-surfaces. For regular points, the Frenet-Serret equations for

C P^{n}

--W-surfaces are shown to give the geometrical meaning of the

A_{n}

-Toda Lax pair, and of the conformally-reduced WZNW models, and Drinfeld-Sokolov equations. KP coordinates are used to show that W-transformations may be extended as particular diffeomorphisms of the target-space. This leads to higher-dimensional generalizations of the WZNW and DS equations. These are related with the Zakharov- Shabat equations. For singular points, global Pl"ucker formulae are derived by combining the

A_{n}

-Toda equations with the Gauss-Bonnet theorem written for each of the associated surfaces.

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