Poisson-Lie group of pseudodifferential symbols

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DOI10.1007/BF02104676zbMATH Open0838.58040arXivhep-th/9312088WikidataQ115392787 ScholiaQ115392787MaRDI QIDQ1907972FDOQ1907972


Authors: Ilya Zakharevich, Boris Khesin Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 15 February 1996

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce a Lie bialgebra structure on the central extension of the Lie algebra of differential operators on the line and the circle (with scalar or matrix coefficients). This defines a Poisson--Lie structure on the dual group of pseudodifferential symbols of an arbitrary real (or complex) order. We show that the usual (second) Benney, KdV (or GL_n--Adler--Gelfand--Dickey) and KP Poisson structures are naturally realized as restrictions of this Poisson structure to submanifolds of this ``universal Poisson--Lie group. Moreover, the reduced (=SL_n) versions of these manifolds (W_n-algebras in physical terminology) can be viewed as subspaces of the quotient (or Poisson reduction) of this Poisson--Lie group by the dressing action of the group of functions. Finally, we define an infinite set of functions in involution on the Poisson--Lie group that give the standard families of Hamiltonians when restricted to the submanifolds mentioned above. The Poisson structure and Hamiltonians on the whole group interpolate between the Poisson structures and Hamiltonians of Benney, KP and KdV flows. We also discuss the geometrical meaning of W_infty as a limit of Poisson algebras W_epsilon as epsilon goes to 0.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9312088




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