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Kac-Moody Groups and Integrability of Soliton Equations

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-02-03 v3

Abstract

A new approach to integrability of affine Toda field theories and closely related to them KdV hierarchies is proposed. The flows of a hierarchy are explicitly identified with infinitesimal action of the principal abelian subalgebra of the nilpotent part of the corresponding affine algebra on a homogeneous space. This is an extended version of the paper "Generalized KdV flows and nilpotent subgroups of affine Kac-Moody groups"; it has been accepted for publication in Inventiones Mathematicae.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9311171,
  title  = {Kac-Moody Groups and Integrability of Soliton Equations},
  author = {Boris Feigin and Edward Frenkel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9311171},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

30 pages, AMSLatex; extended version accepted for publication in Invent. Math