Sato theory

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introduction
  • Sato’s Grassmannian and its determinant bundle became a “universal” setting where moduli spaces of curves (or maps or bundles) of arbitrary genus could be mapped and made to interact
  • tau function =  the section of a determinant line bundle over an infinite-dimensional Grassmannian
  • Sato found that character polynomials (Schur functions) solve the KP hierarchy and, based on this observation, he created the theory of the infinite-dimensional (universal) Grassmann manifold
    and showed that the Hirota bilinear equations are nothing but the Plucker relations for this Grassmann manifold.

 

 

KdV equation

\(K(x,t)=1+e^{2a(x-4a^2t+\delta)}\)

\(2(\frac{\partial^2}{\partial x^2})\log K(x,t)\)

\(K(x,t)=1+A_1e^{2a_1(x-4a_1^2t+\delta_1)}+A_2e^{2a_2(x-4a_2^2t+\delta_2)}+A_3e^{2a_1(x-4a_1^2t+\delta_1)+{2a_2(x-4a_2^2t+\delta_2)}\)

\(2(\frac{\partial^2}{\partial x^2})\log K(x,t)\)

 

 

KdV hierarchy

The totality of soliton equations
organized in this way is called a hierarchy of soliton
equations; in the KdV case, it is called the KdV
hierarchy. This notion of hierarchy was introduced by
M Sato. He tried to understand the nature of the
bilinear method of Hirota. First, he counted the
number of Hirota bilinear operators of given degree
for hierarchies of soliton equations. For the number of
bilinear equations,M Sato and Y Sato made extensive
computations and made many conjectures that involve
eumeration of partitions.

 

 

Wronskian determinant

 

 

relation to Kac-Moody algebras
  • the totality of tau-functions of the KdV hierarchy is the group orbit of the highest weight vector (=1) of the basic representation of A_1^1
  • applications of vertex operators are precisely Ba¨cklund transformations
  • This implies that the affine Lie algebra A(1) 1 is the infinitesimal transformation group for solutions of the KdV hierarchy.
  • Frenkel–Kac had already used free fermions to construct basic representations. In this approach, the tau-functions are defined as vacuum expectation values.

 

 

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