Some algebraic and analytic structures in integrable systems

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The paper presents a review of the modern theories establishing a relation of classical integrable systems to representations of the Poisson-Lie algebras and the corresponding Lie bialgebras, and a relation of integrable quantum systems to the representations of Hopf algebras. The main object chosen to illustrate these relations is a Heisenberg (spin) chain. At first, a finite chain is considered, and then the thermodynamic limit, i.e., a transition to an infinite chain (which, on the contrary to the finite ones, admits genuine phase transitions and is therefore of principal interest to physical applications) is studied in detail. From the mathematical standpoint, an essential peculiarity of the thermodynamic limit for the classical systems is that the corresponding finite-dimensional phase space goes over into an infinite-dimensional one. Similarly, in the quantum systems, the finite-dimensional Hilbert space of states is replaced by a nonseparable Hilbert space. Special attention is paid to a decomposition of the latter space into a direct integral of the separate spaces. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0836.00051].











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