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Publications and source records attributed to James T. Ferguson.
Bi-Hamiltonian structures involving Hamiltonian operators of degree 2 are studied. Firstly, pairs of degree 2 operators are considered in terms of an algebra structure on the space of 1-forms, related to so-called Fermionic Novikov algebras. Then, degree 2 operators are considered as deformations of hydrodynamic type Poisson brackets.
The superpotential in the Landau-Ginzburg construction of solutions to the Witten-Dijkgraaf-Verlinde-Verlinde (or WDVV) equations is modified to include logarithmic terms. This results in deformations - quadratic in the deformation parameters - of the normal prepotential solution of the WDVV equations. Such solution satisfy various pseudo-quasi-homogeneity conditions, on assigning a notional weight to the deformation parameters. This construction includes, as a special case, deformations which are polynomial in the flat coordinates, resulting in a new class of polynomial solutions of the WDVV equations.