A supersymmetric integrable system for arbitrary N

Infinite-dimensional Lie (super)algebras (17B65) Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests (37J35) Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10) Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology (37N10) Foundations of fluid mechanics (76A02) Transonic flows (76H05)

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Supersymmetric integrable dynamical systems are known in \(N = 1\) (extended super-) space, where they arise via Lax representations and Miura maps, and in \(N = 2\) space, where they appear in the context of super-extensions of the Virasoro algebra in two-dimensional conformal quantum field theory. Since these extensions are centerless for \(N > 4\), \(N > 4\) integrable systems are not believed to exist; there is a plausible integrable candidate for \(N = 3\). Below, we will see that, for any \(N\), the following system is a member of an infinite hierarchy of commuting flows with a common infinite set of polynomial conserved densities (c.d.'s) in involution: \[ \dot A_ n = A_{n + 1}' + A_ n' A_ 0 + \left (2 - {N\over 2}\right) A_ n A_ 0' - {1\over 2} {\mathcal D}_ r (A_ n) {\mathcal D}_ r (A_ 0),\quad n \in \mathbb{Z}_ +,\tag{1} \] where: \({\mathcal D}_ 1, \dots, {\mathcal D}_ N\) are odd (super) commuting derivations satisfying \[ {\mathcal D}_ r {\mathcal D}_{\overline{r}} + {\mathcal D}_{\overline{r}} D_ r = 2\delta_{r \overline{r}} \partial, \quad 1 \leq r,\;\overline{r} \leq N, \] \(\partial\) being an even derivation [\(\partial\) can be thought of as \(\partial/\partial x\), and \({\mathcal D}_ r\) as \(\partial/\partial \theta_ r + \theta_ r \partial, \theta_ 1, \dots, \theta_ N\) being the generators of the Grassmann algebra \(\Lambda(N)\)]; an overdot denotes the time derivative; \((\cdot)' := \partial(\cdot)\); \(A_ n\)'s are all even; summation is implied over nonfixed repeated indices. Apart from the terms with the odd derivations, system (1) is a system of the hydrodynamical type; to incorporate the odd derivations, in the next section we supersymmetrize the notion \{systems of hydrodynamical type in even spaces\}. Next, we discuss the Hamiltonian structure of system (1): this structure comes from the dual space of the loop algebra of the Lie algebra of vector fields on a (super) \(N\)-circle. Finally, the c.d.'s of the system (1) are given by an explicit combinatorial formula (43); the completeness and involutivity of these c.d.'s then follows at once by arguments similar to those deployed by the author in Lie Groups, Hist. Front. Appl., Ser. B 2, 357-358 (1984; Zbl 0594.76003).

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