Locality of symmetries generated by nonhereditary, inhomogeneous, and time-dependent recursion operators: a new application for formal symmetries

Using the methods of the theory of formal symmetries, we obtain new easily verifiable sufficient conditions for a recursion operator to produce a hierarchy of local generalized symmetries. An important advantage of our approach is that under certain mild assumptions it allows to bypass the cumbersome check of hereditariness of the recursion operator in question, what is particularly useful for the study of symmetries of newly discovered integrable systems. What is more, unlike the earlier work, the homogeneity of recursion operators and symmetries under a scaling is not assumed as well. An example of nonhereditary recursion operator generating a hierarchy of local symmetries is presented.Comment: 11 pages, LaTeX 2e, submitted to Acta Appl. Mat

Weakly Nonlocal Hamiltonian Structures: Lie Derivative and Compatibility

We show that under certain technical assumptions any weakly nonlocal Hamiltonian structure compatible with a given nondegenerate weakly nonlocal symplectic structure $J$ can be written as the Lie derivative of $J^{-1}$ along a suitably chosen nonlocal vector field. Moreover, we present a new description for local Hamiltonian structures of arbitrary order compatible with a given nondegenerate local Hamiltonian structure of zero or first order, including Hamiltonian operators of the Dubrovin-Novikov type.Comment: This is a contribution to the Vadim Kuznetsov Memorial Issue on Integrable Systems and Related Topics, published in SIGMA (Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications) at http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA

Exact solvability of superintegrable Benenti systems

We establish quantum and classical exact solvability for two large classes of maximally superintegrable Benenti systems in $n$ dimensions with arbitrarily large $n$. Namely, we solve the Hamilton--Jacobi and Schr\"odinger equations for the systems in question. The results obtained are illustrated for a model with the cubic potential.Comment: 15 pages, LaTeX 2e, no figures; in the updated version a number of typos were fixed and other minor changes were mad

Central extensions of cotangent universal hierarchy: (2+1)-dimensional bi-Hamiltonian systems

We introduce the cotangent universal hierarchy that extends the so-called universal hierarchy (as for the latter, see e.g. arXiv:nlin/0202008, arXiv:nlin/0312043 and arXiv:nlin/0310036). Then we construct a (2+1)-dimensional double central extension of the cotangent universal hierarchy and show that this extension is bi-Hamiltonian. This yields, as a byproduct, the central extension of the original universal hierarchy.Comment: 12 pages, LaTeX 2e, minor changes (typos fixed, English improved, etc.

A remark on nonlocal symmetries for the Calogero-Degasperis-Ibragimov-Shabat equation

We consider the Calogero-Degasperis-Ibragimov-Shabat (CDIS) equation and find the complete set of its nonlocal symmetries depending on the local variables and on the integral of the only local conserved density of the equation in question. The Lie algebra of these symmetries turns out to be a central extension of that of local generalized symmetries.Comment: arxiv version is already officia