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Dispersionless Toda hierarchy and two-dimensional string theory
The dispersionless Toda hierarchy turns out to lie in the heart of a recently
proposed Landau-Ginzburg formulation of two-dimensional string theory at
self-dual compactification radius. The dynamics of massless tachyons with
discrete momenta is shown to be encoded into the structure of a special
solution of this integrable hierarchy. This solution is obtained by solving a
Riemann-Hilbert problem. Equivalence to the tachyon dynamics is proven by
deriving recursion relations of tachyon correlation functions in the machinery
of the dispersionless Toda hierarchy. Fundamental ingredients of the
Landau-Ginzburg formulation, such as Landau-Ginzburg potentials and tachyon
Landau-Ginzburg fields, are translated into the language of the Lax formalism.
Furthermore, a wedge algebra is pointed out to exist behind the Riemann-Hilbert
problem, and speculations on its possible role as generators of ``extra''
states and fields are presented.Comment: LaTeX 21 pages, KUCP-0067 (typos are corrected and a brief note is
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Non-degenerate solutions of universal Whitham hierarchy
The notion of non-degenerate solutions for the dispersionless Toda hierarchy
is generalized to the universal Whitham hierarchy of genus zero with
marked points. These solutions are characterized by a Riemann-Hilbert problem
(generalized string equations) with respect to two-dimensional canonical
transformations, and may be thought of as a kind of general solutions of the
hierarchy. The Riemann-Hilbert problem contains arbitrary functions
, , which play the role of generating functions of
two-dimensional canonical transformations. The solution of the Riemann-Hilbert
problem is described by period maps on the space of -tuples
of conformal maps from disks of the
Riemann sphere and their complements to the Riemann sphere. The period maps are
defined by an infinite number of contour integrals that generalize the notion
of harmonic moments. The -function (free energy) of these solutions is also
shown to have a contour integral representation.Comment: latex2e, using amsmath, amssym and amsthm packages, 32 pages, no
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-analogue of modified KP hierarchy and its quasi-classical limit
A -analogue of the tau function of the modified KP hierarchy is defined by
a change of independent variables. This tau function satisfies a system of
bilinear -difference equations. These bilinear equations are translated to
the language of wave functions, which turn out to satisfy a system of linear
-difference equations. These linear -difference equations are used to
formulate the Lax formalism and the description of quasi-classical limit. These
results can be generalized to a -analogue of the Toda hierarchy. The results
on the -analogue of the Toda hierarchy might have an application to the
random partition calculus in gauge theories and topological strings.Comment: latex2e, a4 paper 15 pages, no figure; (v2) a few references are
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