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The multicomponent 2D Toda hierarchy: discrete flows and string equations

Manuel Mañas, Luis Martínez Alonso and Carlos Álvarez-Fernández

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The multicomponent 2D Toda hierarchy is analyzed through a factorization problem associated with an infinite-dimensional group. A new set of discrete flows is considered and the corresponding Lax and Zakharov–Shabat equations are characterized. Reductions of block Toeplitz and Hankel bi-infinite matrix types are proposed and studied. Orlov–Schulman operators, string equations and additional symmetries (discrete and continuous) are considered. The continuous-discrete Lax equations are shown to be equivalent to a factorization problem as well as to a set of string equations. A congruence method to derive site-independent equations is presented and used to derive equations in the discrete multicomponent KP sector (and also for its modification) of the theory as well as dispersive Whitham equations.


PACS

05.50.+q Lattice theory and statistics (Ising, Potts, etc.)

02.20.Sv Lie algebras of Lie groups

MSC

37K10 Completely integrable systems, integrability tests, bi-Hamiltonian structures, hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.)

22E60 Lie algebras of Lie groups (For the algebraic theory of Lie algebras, see 17Bxx)

Subjects

Mathematical physics

Statistical physics and nonlinear systems

Dates

Issue 6 (June 2009)

Received 16 September 2008, in final form 3 March 2009

Published 21 April 2009



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