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Kanehisa Takasaki

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arXiv1993

Integrable hierarchy underlying topological Landau-Ginzburg models of D-type

A universal integrable hierarchy underlying topological Landau-Ginzburg models of D-tye is presented. Like the dispersionless Toda hierarchy, the new hierarchy has two distinct (``positive" and ``negative") set of flows. Special solutions corresponding to topological Landau-Ginzburg models of D-type are characterized by a Riemann-Hilbert problem, which can be converted into a generalized hodograph transformation. This construction gives an embedding of the finite dimensional small phase space of these models into the full space of flows of this hierarchy. One of flat coordinates in the small phase space turns out to be identical to the first ``negative" time variable of the hierarchy, whereas the others belong to the ``positive" flows.

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arXiv1993

Quasi-classical limit of BKP hierarchy and W-infinity symmeties

Previous results on quasi-classical limit of the KP and Toda hierarchies are now extended to the BKP hierarchy. Basic tools such as the Lax representation, the Baker-Akhiezer function and the tau function are reformulated so as to fit into the analysis of quasi-classical limit. Two subalgebras $\WB_{1+\infty}$ and $\wB_{1+\infty}$ of the W-infinity algebras $W_{1+\infty}$ and $w_{1+\infty}$ are introduced as fundamental Lie algebras of the BKP hierarchy and its quasi-classical limit, the dispersionless BKP hierarchy. The quantum W-infinity algebra $\WB_{1+\infty}$ emerges in symmetries of the BKP hierarchy. In quasi-classical limit, these $\WB_{1+\infty}$ symmetries are shown to be contracted into $\wB_{1+\infty}$ symmetries of the dispersionless BKP hierarchy.

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arXiv1993

Quasi-classical limit of KP hierarchy, W-symmetries and free fermions

This paper deals with the dispersionless KP hierarchy from the point of view of quasi-classical limit. Its Lax formalism, W-infinity symmetries and general solutions are shown to be reproduced from their counterparts in the KP hierarchy in the limit of $\hbar \to 0$. Free fermions and bosonized vertex operators play a key role in the description of W-infinity symmetries and general solutions, which is technically very similar to a recent free fermion formalism of $c=1$ matrix models.

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arXiv1993

SDiff(2) KP hierarchy

An analogue of the KP hierarchy, the SDiff(2) KP hierarchy, related to the group of area-preserving diffeomorphisms on a cylinder is proposed. An improved Lax formalism of the KP hierarchy is shown to give a prototype of this new hierarchy. Two important potentials, $S$ and $τ$, are introduced. The latter is a counterpart of the tau function of the ordinary KP hierarchy. A Riemann-Hilbert problem relative to the group of area-diffeomorphisms gives a twistor theoretical description (nonlinear graviton construction) of general solutions. A special family of solutions related to topological minimal models are identified in the framework of the Riemann-Hilbert problem. Further, infinitesimal symmetries of the hierarchy are constructed. At the level of the tau function, these symmetries obey anomalous commutation relations, hence leads to a central extension of the algebra of infinitesimal area-preserving diffeomorphisms (or of the associated Poisson algebra).

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arXiv1992

Dressing operator approach to Moyal algebraic deformation of selfdual gravity

Recently Strachan introduced a Moyal algebraic deformation of selfdual gravity, replacing a Poisson bracket of the Plebanski equation by a Moyal bracket. The dressing operator method in soliton theory can be extended to this Moyal algebraic deformation of selfdual gravity. Dressing operators are defined as Laurent series with coefficients in the Moyal (or star product) algebra, and turn out to satisfy a factorization relation similar to the case of the KP and Toda hierarchies. It is a loop algebra of the Moyal algebra (i.e., of a $W_\infty$ algebra) and an associated loop group that characterize this factorization relation. The nonlinear problem is linearized on this loop group and turns out to be integrable.

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arXiv1992

Volume-preserving diffeomorphisms in integrable deformations of selfdual gravity

A group of volume-preserving diffeomorphisms in 3D turns out to play a key role in an Einstein-Maxwell theory whose Weyl tensor is selfdual and whose Maxwell tensor has algebraically general anti-selfdual part. This model was first introduced by Flaherty and recently studied by Park as an integrable deformation of selfdual gravity. A twisted volume form on the corresponding twistor space is shown to be the origin of volume-preserving diffeomorphisms. An immediate consequence is the existence of an infinite number of symmetries as a generalization of $w_{1+\infty}$ symmetries in selfdual gravity. A possible relation to Witten's 2D string theory is pointed out.

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arXiv1991

Area-Preserving Diffeomorphisms and Nonlinear Integrable Systems

Present state of the study of nonlinear ``integrable" systems related to the group of area-preserving diffeomorphisms on various surfaces is overviewed. Roles of area-preserving diffeomorphisms in 4-d self-dual gravity are reviewed. Recent progress in new members of this family, the SDiff(2) KP and Toda hierarchies, is reported. The group of area-preserving diffeomorphisms on a cylinder plays a key role just as the infinite matrix group GL($\infty$) does in the ordinary KP and Toda lattice hierarchies. The notion of tau functions is also shown to persist in these hierarchies, and gives rise to a central extension of the corresponding Lie algebra.

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arXiv1991

SDiff(2) Toda equation -- hierarchy, $τ$ function, and symmetries

A continuum limit of the Toda lattice field theory, called the SDiff(2) Toda equation, is shown to have a Lax formalism and an infinite hierarchy of higher flows. The Lax formalism is very similar to the case of the self-dual vacuum Einstein equation and its hyper-Kähler version, however now based upon a symplectic structure and the group SDiff(2) of area preserving diffeomorphisms on a cylinder $S^1 \times \R$. An analogue of the Toda lattice tau function is introduced. The existence of hidden SDiff(2) symmetries are derived from a Riemann-Hilbert problem in the SDiff(2) group. Symmetries of the tau function turn out to have commutator anomalies, hence give a representation of a central extension of the SDiff(2) algebra.

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