W-algebras from soliton equations and Heisenberg subalgebras

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Abstract: We derive sufficient conditions under which the ``second Hamiltonian structure of a class of generalized KdV-hierarchies defines one of the classical calW-algebras obtained through Drinfel'd-Sokolov Hamiltonian reduction. These integrable hierarchies are associated to the Heisenberg subalgebras of an untwisted affine Kac-Moody algebra. When the principal Heisenberg subalgebra is chosen, the well known connection between the Hamiltonian structure of the generalized Drinfel'd-Sokolov hierarchies - the Gel'fand-Dickey algebras - and the calW-algebras associated to the Casimir invariants of a Lie algebra is recovered. After carefully discussing the relations between the embeddings of A1=sl(2,BbbC) into a simple Lie algebra g and the elements of the Heisenberg subalgebras of g(1), we identify the class of calW-algebras that can be defined in this way. For An, this class only includes those associated to the embeddings labelled by partitions of the form n+1=k(m)+q(1) and n+1=k(m+1)+k(m)+q(1).





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