Tau function and Virasoro action for the n n KdV hierarchy

DOI10.1007/S00220-015-2558-7zbMATH Open1354.37068arXiv1406.5240OpenAlexW2963703752MaRDI QIDQ5962906FDOQ5962906

Chuu-Lian Terng, Karen Uhlenbeck

Publication date: 25 February 2016

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

Abstract: This is the third in a series of papers attempting to describe a uniform geometric framework in which many integrable systems can be placed. A soliton hierarchy can be constructed from a splitting of an infinite dimensional group $L$ as positive and negative subgroups L_+, L_- and a commuting sequence in the Lie algebra of L_+. Given f in L_-, there is a formal inverse scattering solution u_f of the hierarchy. When there is a 2 co-cycle that vanishes on both subalgebras of L_+ and L_-, Wilson constructed for each f in L_- a tau function tau_f for the hierarchy. In this third paper, we prove the following results for the nxn KdV hierarchy: (1) The second partials of ln(tau_f) are differential polynomials of the formal inverse scattering solution u_f. Moreover, u_f can be recovered from the second partials of ln(tau_f). (2) The natural Virasoro action on ln(tau_f) constructed in the second paper is given by partial differential operators in ln(tau_f). (3) There is a bijection between phase spaces of the nxn KdV hierarchy and the Gelfand-Dickey (GD_n) hierarchy on the space of order n linear differential operators on the line so that the flows in these two hierarchies correspond under the bijection. (4) Our Virasoro action on the nxn KdV hierarchy is constructed from a simple Virasoro action on the negative group. We show that it corresponds to the known Virasoro action on the GD_n hierarchy under the bijection.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.5240

zbMATH Keywords

integrable systemsoliton hierarchytau functionVirasoro action

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Virasoro and related algebras (17B68) 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) Applications of Lie algebras and superalgebras to integrable systems (17B80)

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