Symmetries of the Kadomstev-Petviashvili Hierarchy

1994/03/01 by A. Yu. Orlov, P. Winternitz, Orlov, A. Yu. +1
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9403005

4 pages, CRM-2149

arxiv created 1994/03/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

The relation between the \widehat\Sl(∞) algebra of flows commuting with the KP hierarchy and the Kac-Moody-Virasoro Lie point symmetries of individual equations is established. This is used to calculate the point symmetries for all equations in the hierarchy.

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