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

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 mat...

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Autores: Mañas Baena, Manuel Enrique, Martínez Alonso, Luis, Álvarez Fernández, Carlos
Tipo de documento: artigo
Data de publicação:2009
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositório:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglês
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/44701
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/44701
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:51-73
Multidimensional quadrilateral lattices
Nonintersecting brownian motions
Dispersionless kp hierarchy
Universal whitham hierarchy
Matrix models
Additional symmetries
Hodograph solutions
Integrable hierarchies
Hankel-matrices
Reductions
Física-Modelos matemáticos
Física matemática
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Resumo: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.