On the Whitham hierarchy: dressing scheme, string equations and additional symmetries

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/39/10/008MaRDI QIDQ3376784zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Manuel Mañas, Elena Medina, Luis Martínez Alonso

Publication date 24 March 2006

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0509017

zbMATH Keywords

quasiconformal mapssymplectic transformationsVirasoro algebrasdispersionless integrable models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric theory, characteristics, transformations in context of PDEs (35A30) Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10) Relations of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian dynamical systems with infinite-dimensional Lie algebras and other algebraic structures (37K30)

Abstract: A new description of the universal Whitham hierarchy in terms of a factorization problem in the Lie group of canonical transformations is provided. This scheme allows us to give a natural description of dressing transformations, string equations and additional symmetries for the Whitham hierarchy. We show how to dress any given solution and prove that any solution of the hierarchy may be undressed, and therefore comes from a factorization of a canonical transformation. A particulary important function, related to the $au$-function, appears as a potential of the hierarchy. We introduce a class of string equations which extends and contains previous classes of string equations considered by Krichever and by Takasaki and Takebe. The scheme is also applied for an convenient derivation of additional symmetries. Moreover, new functional symmetries of the Zakharov extension of the Benney gas equations are given and the action of additional symmetries over the potential in terms of linear PDEs is characterized.

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