WKB analysis of the linear problem for modified affine Toda field equations

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Abstract: We study the WKB analysis of the solutions to the linear problem for a modified affine Toda field equation, which is equivalent to the higher-order ordinary differential equation (ODE) studied in the ODE/IM correspondence. We diagonalize the flat connection of the linear problem by gauge transformation to reduce the linear problem to a set of independent first-order linear differential equations. We explicitly perform this procedure for classical affine Lie algebras with low ranks. In particular, we are able to study the WKB solutions of the Dr(1)- and Dr+1(2)-type linear problems which correspond to the higher-order ODEs including the pseudo-differential operator. The diagonalized connection is obtained by solving the Riccati equations of the adjoint linear problem. The connection is also related to the conserved currents of the integrable hierarchy constructed by Drinfeld and Sokolov up to total derivatives.




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