Systems of PDEs obtained from factorization in loop groups

Details Systems of PDEs obtained from factorization in loop groups Systems of PDEs obtained from factorization in loop groups

1998-01-08

arxiv.org/abs/solv-int/9801009v1

Nonlinear Sciences

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems

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We propose a generalization of a Drinfeld-Sokolov scheme of attaching integrable systems of PDEs to affine Kac-Moody algebras. With every affine Kac-Moody algebra $\gg$ and a parabolic subalgebra $\gp$, we associate two hierarchies of PDEs. One, called positive, is a generalization of the KdV hierarchy, the other, called negative, generalizes the Toda hierarchy. We prove a coordinatization theorem, which establishes that the number of functions needed to express all PDEs of the the total hierarchy equals the rank of $\gg$. The choice of functions, however, is shown to depend in a noncanonical way on $\gp$. We employ a version of the Birkhoff decomposition and a ``2-loop'' formulation which allows us to incorporate geometrically meaningful solutions to those hierarchies. We illustrate our formalism for positive hierarchies with a generalization of the Boussinesq system and for the negative hierarchies with the stationary Bogoyavlenskii equation.

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