The n n KdV hierarchy

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Abstract: We introduce a new integrable system hierarchy which is a restriction of the AKNS nxn hierarchy coming from an unusual splitting of the loop algebra. This splitting comes from an automorphism of the loop algebra instead of an automorphism of SL(n,C). It is known that the 2x2 KdV is the standard KdV hierarchy.


The authors construct two new soliton hierarchies that are generalisations of the KdV hierarchy, which they call the \(n \times n\) KdV hierarchy and the \(2n \times 2n\) KdV-II hierarchy. These hierarchies are new restrictions of the AKNS \(n \times n\) hierarchy obtained from two unusual splittings of the loop algebra. The splittings arise from automorphisms of the loop algebra rather than from automorphisms of \(\mathrm{sl}(n,\mathbb{C})\). Since the construction is based on a Lie algebra splitting, the general method gives formal inverse scattering, bi-Hamiltonian structures, commuting flows, and Bäcklund transformations for these new systems. The method how to generate a hierarchy of commuting flows from a Lie algebra splitting is reviewed and basic examples of the theory are presented, which include the AKNS hierarchy, the matrix NLS hierarchy, the Kuperschmidt-Wilson hierarchy, and the \(n \times n\) mKdV hierarchy.




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