N=4 super KdV hierarchy in N=4 and N=2 superspaces

DOI10.1063/1.531796MaRDI QIDQ5284317zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 17 July 1997

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9510033

zbMATH Keywords

\(N=2\) superspace\(N=4\) superspaceevolution equationsN=4 super KdV

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Initial value problems for linear higher-order PDEs (35G10) Higher-order parabolic equations (35K25) 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) Supermanifolds and graded manifolds (58A50) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

Abstract: We present the results of further analysis of the integrability properties of the $N=4$ supersymmetric KdV equation deduced earlier by two of us (F.D. & E.I.) as a hamiltonian flow on $N=4$ $SU(2)$ superconformal algebra in the harmonic $N=4$ superspace. To make this equation and the relevant hamiltonian structures more tractable, we reformulate it in the ordinary $N=4$ and further in $N=2$ superspaces. In $N=2$ superspace it is given by a coupled system of evolution equations for a general $N=2$ superfield and two chiral and antichiral superfields, and involves two independent real parameters, $a$ and $b$. We construct a few first bosonic conserved charges in involution, of dimensions from 1 to 6, and show that they exist only for the following choices of the parameters: (i) $a=4,;b=0$; (ii) $a=-2,;b=-6$; (iii) $a=-2,;b=6$. The same values are needed for the relevant evolution equations to be bi-hamiltonian. We demonstrate that these three options are related via $SU(2)$ transformations and actually amount to the $SU(2)$ covariant integrability condition found in the harmonic superspace approach. Our results provide a strong evidence that the unique $N=4$ $SU(2)$ super KdV hierarchy exists. Upon reduction to $N=2$ KdV, the above three possibilities cease to be equivalent. They give rise to the $a=4$ and $a=-2$ $N=2$ KdV hierarchies, which thus prove to be different truncations of the single $N=4$ $SU(2)$ KdV one.

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