Compatible Hamiltonian Operators for the Krichever-Novikov Equation
Sylvain Carpentier

TL;DR
This paper demonstrates that the Krichever-Novikov equation's hierarchy is Hamiltonian with a set of compatible operators, including a non-local Hamiltonian operator and two weakly non-local recursion operators, expanding understanding of its integrable structure.
Contribution
It introduces new compatible Hamiltonian operators for the Krichever-Novikov hierarchy, including compositions of existing operators, enhancing the framework for its integrability analysis.
Findings
H_0, L_4H_0, and L_6H_0 are compatible Hamiltonian operators.
The hierarchy remains Hamiltonian under these operators.
The operators extend the known Hamiltonian structure of the equation.
Abstract
It has been proved by V. Sokolov that the Krichever-Novikov equation's hierarchy is hamiltonian for the non-local Hamiltonian operator H_0=u_x D^{-1} u_x and possesses twi weakly non-local recursion operatos of degree 4 and 6, L_4 and L_6. We show here that H_0, L_4H_0 and L_6H_0 are compatible Hamiltonian operators for which the Krichever-Novikov equation's hierarchy is hamiltonian.
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Compatible Hamiltonian Operators for the Krichever-Novikov Equation
Sylvain Carpentier*
It has been proved by Sokolov that Krichever-Novikov equation’s hierarchy is hamiltonian for the Hamiltonian operator and possesses two weakly non-local recursion operators of degree and , and . We show here that , and are compatible Hamiltonians operators for which the Krichever-Novikov equation’s hierarchy is hamiltonian.
††footnotetext: * Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
In the study of finite gap solutions of KP, an integrable -dimensional PDE was discovered, the Krichever-Novikov equation. One of its forms (equivalent to the original one in [KN80]) is
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where , , and is a polynomial of degree at most . Let and be the fraction field of . Let us denote by . The differential order of a function is the highest integer such that .
One of the attributes of equation is to be part of an infinite hierarchy of compatible evolution PDEs of odd differential orders
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where has differential order . One says that are compatible, or symmetries of one another, if
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where denotes the derivation of induced by the evolution equation , that is
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endows with a Lie algebra bracket, and the ’s span an infinite-dimensional abelian subalgebra of , which we will denote by . The first four equations in the hierarchy are:
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It is known ([IS80], [MS08]) that all integrable hierarchies admit a pseudodifferential operators satisfying
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for all in the hierarchy, where denotes the Fréchet derivative of :
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A pseudodifferential operator satisfying is called a recursion operator (for ). In [DS08] two rational recursions operators for were found, of order and :
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where
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Moreover, and are both weakly non-local, i.e. of the form
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where the ’s are conserved densities of . Recall that the variational derivative is defined as follows:
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In [S84], Sokolov showed that the space of symmetries of , , is preserved by . The same argument applies to , which was found later. He also establishes that the hierarchy of the Krichever-Novikov equation is hamiltonian for : there exists a sequence such that
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A Hamiltonian operator with and right coprime is a skewadjoint rational differential operator inducing a non-local poisson lambda bracket, which is equivalent to the following identity (see equation in [DSK13])
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for all .
Lemma 1**.**
Let be a skewadjoint rational operator. If there exists an infinite-dimensional (over ) subspace such that and such that for all , satisfies
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then is a Hamiltonian operator. Conversely, if is a hamiltonian operator and , then if and only if satisfies equation
Proof.
Let us first give an equivalent form of involving only differential operators.
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Comparing the last line of with , it is clear that if is Hamiltonian, then satisfies equation is and only if is self-adjoint. It is also clear that if satisfies and is self-adjoint, then satisfies for any . Therefore, if we consider infinite-dimensional subspace of such that satisfies and , we deduce that is satisfied for any . To conclude, we note that can be rewritten as an identity of bidifferential operator, i.e. it amounts to say that some expression of the form , where is trivial, i.e. for all . Namely, is equivalent to
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where given a differential operator , an element , the differential operator is defined by
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If a bidifferential operator vanishes on , it must be identically [math], since is infinite dimensional. Hence, is an Hamiltonian operator. ∎
Lemma 2**.**
Let be a rational operator and a sequence spanning an infinite-dimensional subspace of satisfying for all . Assume that is recursion for all the ’s and that the ’s are hamiltonian for some Hamiltonian operator . Then, provided is skew-adjoint, is a Hamiltonian operator for which all the ’s are hamiltonian ().
Proof.
By Lemma , satisfies equation for all , hence so does ( is recursion for for all ). To conclude using Lemma , one needs to check that for some for all . Let be right coprime differential operators such that . Let be right coprime differential operators such that . is hamiltonian for for all , meaning that there exist two sequences in , and , such that and for all . In the language of [CDSK15], and are associated, hence (quote result) there exists such that and for all . Therefore, by Lemma , is a Hamiltonian operator for which are hamiltonian. ∎
**Theorem **.
, and are compatible Hamiltonian operators.
Proof.
Let and let . is a recursion operator for the whole Krichever-Novikov hierarchy . Moreover, it maps to itself as was proved in [S84], meaning that if with right coprime and , then for some and . The theorem follows from Lemma . ∎
Remark 3**.**
It follows from Lemma that is a Hamiltonian operator of degree . However, it is not weakly non-local. More generally all the , for are pairwise compatible Hamiltonian operators.
Remark 4**.**
Every Hamiltonian operator over , where and are right coprime induces a Lie algebra bracket on the space of functionals , (well-)defined by (see section in [DSK13]). Note that but that and consist only of the conserved densities of the Krichever-Novikov equation.
We recall that if a rational differential operator , with right coprime generates an infinite dimensional abelian subspace of , in the sense that there exist such that for all and such that the ’s span an infinite-dimensional abelian subspace of , then for all , must be a sub Lie algebra of (see [C17]). The recursion operators satisfy this condition.
The author thanks Vladimir Sokolov for useful discussions, and Victor Kac for his interest in this work.
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