46 research outputs found
On symmetries and cohomological invariants of equations possessing flat representations
We study the equation E_fc of flat connections in a fiber bundle and discover
a specific geometric structure on it, which we call a flat representation. We
generalize this notion to arbitrary PDE and prove that flat representations of
an equation E are in 1-1 correspondence with morphisms f: E\to E_fc, where E
and E_fc are treated as submanifolds of infinite jet spaces. We show that flat
representations include several known types of zero-curvature formulations of
PDE. In particular, the Lax pairs of the self-dual Yang-Mills equations and
their reductions are of this type. With each flat representation we associate a
complex C_f of vector-valued differential forms such that its first cohomology
describes infinitesimal deformations of the flat structure, which are
responsible, in particular, for parameters in Backlund transformations. In
addition, each higher infinitesimal symmetry S of E defines a 1-cocycle c_S of
C_f. Symmetries with exact c_S form a subalgebra reflecting some geometric
properties of E and f. We show that the complex corresponding to E_fc itself is
0-acyclic and 1-acyclic (independently of the bundle topology), which means
that higher symmetries of E_fc are exhausted by generalized gauge ones, and
compute the bracket on 0-cochains induced by commutation of symmetries.Comment: 30 page
The Calogero--Bogoyavlenskii--Schiff breaking soliton equation: recursion operators and higher symmetries
We find two one-parametric families of recursion operators and use them to
construct higher symmetries for the Calogero--Bogoyavlenskii--Schiff breaking
soliton equation. Then we prove that the recursion operators from the first
family pair-wise commute with respect to the Nijenhuis bracket (are
compatible)