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Dressing Symmetries

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

We study Lie-Poisson actions on symplectic manifolds. We show that they are generated by non-Abelian Hamiltonians. We apply this result to the group of dressing transformations in soliton theories; we find that the non-Abelian Hamiltonian is just the monodromy matrix. This provides a new proof of their Lie-Poisson property. We show that the dressing transformations are the classical precursors of the non-local and quantum group symmetries of these theories. We treat in detail the examples of the Toda field theories and the Heisenberg model.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9111036,
  title  = {Dressing Symmetries},
  author = {O. Babelon and D. Bernard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9111036},
  year   = {2008}
}

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