Additional symmetries of generalized integrable hierarchies

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/27/13/036MaRDI QIDQ4869858zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Timothy J. Hollowood, J. Luis Miramontes, Joaquín Sánchez-Guillén

Publication date 8 May 1996

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9311067

zbMATH Keywords

Korteweg-de Vries equationVirasoro algebraKac-Moody algebratau-functionsscaling symmetriesnon-isospectral symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) 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) Invariance and symmetry properties for PDEs on manifolds (58J70) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10)

Abstract: The non-isospectral symmetries of a general class of integrable hierarchies are found, generalizing the Galilean and scaling symmetries of the Korteweg--de Vries equation and its hierarchy. The symmetries arise in a very natural way from the semi-direct product structure of the Virasoro algebra and the affine Kac--Moody algebra underlying the construction of the hierarchy. In particular, the generators of the symmetries are shown to satisfy a subalgebra of the Virasoro algebra. When a tau-function formalism is available, the infinitesimal symmetries act directly on the tau-functions as moments of Virasoro currents. Some comments are made regarding the r^ole of the non-isospectral symmetries and the form of the string equations in matrix-model formulations of quantum gravity in two-dimensions and related systems.

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