NONCOMMUTATIVE KdV HIERARCHY
2007 ◽
Vol 19
(07)
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pp. 677-724
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Keyword(s):
The noncommutative version of the Korteweg–de Vries equation studied here is shown to admit infinitely many constants of motion and to give rise to a hierarchy of higher-order Hamiltonian evolution equations, each one the noncommutative version of the commutative KdV equation of the same order. The noncommutative KdV polynomials span, topologically, a maximal Abelian subalgebra of the Lie algebra of noncommutative Bäcklund transformations. Two classes of examples of "completely integrable" systems of evolution equations to which the theory applies are described in the last two sections.