Tau functions and Virasoro actions for soliton hierarchies

DOI10.1007/S00220-015-2562-YzbMATH Open1346.37058arXiv1405.4043OpenAlexW2963344571MaRDI QIDQ5962907FDOQ5962907

Authors: Chuu-Lian Terng, Karen Uhlenbeck 

Publication date: 25 February 2016

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

Abstract: There is a general method for constructing a soliton hierarchy from a splitting of a loop group as a positive and a negative sub-groups together with a commuting linearly independent sequence in the positive Lie subalgebra. Many known soliton hierarchies can be constructed this way. The formal inverse scattering associates to each f in the negative subgroup a solution u_f of the hierarchy. When there is a 2 co-cycle of the Lie algebra that vanishes on both sub-algebras, Wilson constructed a tau function tau_f for each element f in the negative subgroup. In this paper, we give integral formulas for variations of ln(tau_f) and second partials of ln(tau_f), discuss whether we can recover solutions u_f from tau_f, and give a general construction of actions of the positive half of the Virasoro algebra on tau functions. We write down formulas relating tau functions and formal inverse scattering solutions and the Virasoro vector fields for the GL(n,C)-hierarchy.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.4043

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zbMATH Keywords

integrable hierarchyVirasoro algebratau function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton theory, asymptotic behavior of solutions of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems (37K40) Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10)

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