Abstract
The aim of this paper is to develop an algebraically feasible approach to solutions of the oriented associativity equations. Our approach was based on a modification of the Adler–Kostant–Symes integrability scheme and applied to the co-adjoint orbits of the diffeomorphism loop group of the circle. A new two-parametric hierarchy of commuting to each other Monge type Hamiltonian vector fields is constructed. This hierarchy, jointly with a specially constructed reciprocal transformation, produces a Frobenius manifold potential function in terms of solutions of these Monge type Hamiltonian systems.
Keywords:
Witten–Dijkgraaf–Verlinde-Verlinde associativity equations; oriented associativity equations; loop lie algebras; Frobenius manifold potential function; Adler–Kostant–Symes scheme; Lie-algeberaic analysis; compatible Hamiltonian flows; reciprocal transformation MSC:
35A30; 35G25; 35N10; 37K35; 58J70; 58J72; 34A34
1. The Introductory Setting
Let us start with an interesting mathematical structure, suggested in [1,2,3,4,5], on the space of smooth functions: consider a real-valued -smooth differentiable Frobenius manifold potential function and denote their partial derivatives as
for , and . These partial derivatives are symmetrical, with respect to permutations of their indices. Let us assume additionally that the symmetric matrix is non-degenerate, and call it an induced metric on the In addition,
where, by definition,
for all , and Assume now that the set represents a local coordinate frame [6,7] of an a finite-dimensional manifold Then its tangent space at a point is described by means of the local vector field system which a priori commute to each other: for all Let us now assume that the manifold M is a Frobenius manifold [8,9,10], i.e., its tangent space at any point forms an associative Frobenius algebra with respect to some multiplication on
for any and with the structure constants defined by the expression (3). Define now a set of matrices Then, as it easily follows from (4), the structure constants (3) should satisfy the following additional constraints:
for any and all (5) are called the Witten–Dijkgraaf–Verlinde–Verlinde, or oriented associativity WDVV equations. These equations were first investigated in [11,12,13] for problems related with topological and string quantum field theory of elementary particles. A nice introduction into the topic can be found in B. Dubrovin Lecture Notes [2]. Lie-algebraic aspects of these equations and related integrability properties can be found in recent works [14,15].
The notion of a Frobenius manifold was first axiomatized and thoroughly studied by B. Dubrovin [2,3,4,5] in the early nineties, and plays a central role in mirror field theory symmetry [16,17,18], theory of unfolding spaces of singularities [19], quantization theory [20,21], quantum cohomology [8], and integrability theory [1,19,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31] of dispersion-less many-dimensional systems.
A full Frobenius structure on M consists of the data Here is an associative and commutative multiplication on the tangent sheaf, so that becomes a sheaf of commutative algebras over the ring of convergent series with identity is a metric on M (non-degenerate quadratic form ), and E is a so called Euler vector field. These structures are connected by various constraints and compatibility conditions, and are presented in [2,3] and [32,33]. For example, the metric must be flat and –invariant, i.e., for the metric on M and any , and Various weaker versions of the Frobenius structure are interesting in themselves and also appear in [19,20,21] in different contexts.
Let us also mention an additional notion of a unital Frobenius manifold introduced in [10] and further studied in [9]. This structure consists of an associative and commutative multiplication on the tangent sheaf as above, satisfying the following properties: ) a flat structure on M subject to a flat connection is compatible with a multiplication if in a neighborhood of any point there exists a vector field such that for arbitrary local flat vector fields one has
where is called a local vector potential for ∘; is called compatible with is an identity element, if holds and moreover, the identity element is flat, that is the corresponding covariant derivative for any From (6) one easily ensues the relationships (5), where
for any , and and
As a very interesting example of the above construction can be obtained for the special case We can take into account a reduction of the commuting matrices presented in [1,2,3]. Namely, assume that a smooth Frobenius manifold potential function is representable as
where a smooth mapping satisfies, following from (4) in the form such a partial differential equation:
for any . In particular, as it was shown by B. Dubrovin and Y. Manin [2,3,32,33], the Equation (9) allows the following system of compatible (for any parameter ) linear differential equations:
on vectors determined by matrices
where and generating the corresponding loop -group diffeomorphisms. It is easy also to check that matrices (11) satisfy the matrix Equation (5), that is
for An effective Lie-algebraic analysis of the Dubrovin–Manin linear system (10) was recently presented in [14,15].
In the present work, based on a modification of the Adler–Kostant–Symes integrability scheme, applied to the co-adjoint orbits of the loop diffeomorphism group of circle, a new two-parametric hierarchy of commuting to each other Monge type Hamiltonian vector fields
and
on a pair of smooth functions is constructed. Making use of a suitably constructed reciprocal transformation, applied to this hierarchy, one gives rise to constructing a Frobenius manifold potential function in terns of solutions to these Hamiltonian systems. In particular, we succeeded in describing a class of Frobenius manifold structures, generated by the non-linear Monge type evolution systems (13) and (14).
2. Frobenius Manifolds, the Related Compatible Co-Adjoint Loop Lie Algebra and Integrability
Consider now the functional Lie algebra generated by special Hamiltonian vector fields on the cotangent space to the circle and endowed with the canonical Lie commutator
for any at point This algebra possesses the following symmetric and non-degenerate bi-linear form:
with respect to which Moreover, the Lie algebra is metrized with respect to the bilinear form (17) as it is -invariant: for any , and
Below, we will consider the case when the Lie algebra allows splitting into the direct sum of two sub-algebras: where
and
as for which the following dual isomorphisms hold.
Proceed now to describing via the classical Adler–Kostant–Symes scheme [34,35,36,37,38,39] commuting co-adjoint orbits of the Lie algebra on the adjoint space generated by smooth Casimir functionals with respect to the classical Lie-Poisson bracket on
for and arbitrary where, by definition, for any Namely, the following Hamiltonian flows on
where, by definition, are commuting to each other subject to the corresponding evolution parameters for arbitrary infinite hierarchy of smooth functionally independent Casimir functionals The latter is, evidently, equivalent to the following Lax-Sato type vector field representations:
for all where, by definition, any element via the expression generates a canonical Hamiltonian vector field on at point
Take now an analytic at the momentum element in the following asymptoptic as form:
where the element is considered here as an infinitesimal Lie algebra character, satisfying the conditions that can be easily checked by direct computations. The flows (21) are equivalent to the following co-adjoint action
on with respect to the evolution parameters for all
It is worthy to observe now that in the case of the Casimir functionals the flows (24) can be equivalently rewritten as the Hamiltonian systems
on for all where, by definition, at point Using the Lie bracket (16), Equation (25) can be rewritten as the Hamiltonian flows on the cotangent space
where, by definitions, for any
Remark 1.
It is worth also to remark here that we can pose the following vector field iso-spectral problem
where is the eigenfunction corresponding to an eigenvalue which is a priori invariant with respect to all vector fields (25). The latter naturally allows to apply to (27) the modified inverse scattering transform technique developed in [40] and describe many classes of symbols generating important dispersion-less heavenly type [41] dynamical systems, important for applications in modern mathematical physics.
As the point variables are constant parameters for the evolution flows (25) on analytic at element one can put, by definition, and resolve the functional equation with respect to the symbol parameter obtaining the following expression:
with coefficients characterized by the following lemma.
Lemma 1.
The element satisfies the following hierarchy of compatible evolution equations
where the elements are determined, using the following simple algebraic expressions:
which hold jointly with compatibility relationships
for all
Proof.
Consider now the functional identity
which is satisfied as owing to the following residuum calculation:
which holds for any Consider now Hamiltonian functions and consider the related canonical Hamiltonian vector fields on the cotangent space
with respect to a point subject to the evolution parameter Taking into account the evolution flows (35) and the fact that the identity (33) can be rewritten as
from which and the relationships (31) one ensues the functional representation
for some smooth function Based now on Lemma 1 and relationships (33), (34) one can state now the following proposition.
Proposition 2.
Proof.
This proposition is useful for constructing Frobenius manifolds, naturally related with some generating function satisfying the relationship (36). As an example, we suggest the following element
where are some functional parameters. The corresponding Casimir functions and , etc., generate the following Hamiltonian flows on
with respect to the evolution parameters , etc., where, for instance,
and so on. The above commutator expressions with respect to the evolution parameters and reduce to the next commuting to each other non-linear Monge type evolution systems
and
being also compatible dispersion-less Hamiltonian flows on the corresponding functional phase. Moreover, the evolution systems (42) and (43) are equivalent to the Lax-Sato vector field commutator representation (22), where
The vector fields (44), being considered as elements of the Lie algebra of holomorphic with respect to the variable vector fields on naturally splits into the direct sum of two sub-algebras holomorphic in the parameter inside of the unit circle and outside of this disk, respectively, appear to be generated by the corresponding Casimir functionals on the adjoint space at some root element subject to the following canonical non-degenerate bi-linear form on
where we put, by definition, Based on the definition of Casimir functionals, one easily enough obtains that this root element equals
being a complete derivative of the scalar element for all Moreover, the system of evolution equations (42) and (43) becomes equivalent to the following co-adjoint flows
on the adjoint space generated by the corresponding Casimir functionals and satisfying the determining relationships As now the basic Lie algebra of holomorphic vector fields on is not, evidently, metrized, the flows (47) on do not possess the standard Lax type commutator representation.
Proposition 3.
Author Contributions
The work was equally designed and prepared by both authors, main topic was suggested by A.K.P., yet all calculations were performed and checked by authors jointly. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
A.K.P. acknowledges the Department of Computer Science and Telecommunications at the Cracov University of Technology for a local research grant F-2/370/2018/DS.
Acknowledgments
The authors are cordially indebted to Denis Blackmore for useful comments and remarks, especially for elucidating references, which were instrumental when preparing a manuscript. We would like to thank a reviewer whose remarks and comments were very useful for us. The acknowledgements belong also to the Department of Computer Science and Telecommunications at the Cracov University of Technology for a local research grant F-2/370/2018/DS.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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