Bidifferential calculi and integrable models

Aug, 1999
21 pages
Published in:
  • J.Phys.A 33 (2000) 957
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Abstract:
The existence of an infinite set of conserved currents in completely integrable classical models, including chiral and Toda models as well as the KP and self-dual Yang-Mills equations, is traced back to a simple construction of an infinite chain of closed (respectively, covariantly constant) 1-forms in a (gauged) bi-differential calculus. The latter consists of a differential algebra on which two differential maps act. In a gauged bi-differential calculus these maps are extended to flat covariant derivatives.
  • integrability
  • current: conservation law
  • differential forms
  • model: chiral
  • field theory: Toda
  • Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation
  • sine-Gordon equation
  • field equations: Liouville
  • dimension: 2
  • gauge field theory: Yang-Mills