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31 May 2021

On Symmetry Properties of Frobenius Manifolds and Related Lie-Algebraic Structures

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Department of Computer Science and Telecommunication, The Cracow University of Technology, 31-155 Kraków, Poland
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School of Mathematics, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF24 4AG, UK
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This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry of Hamiltonian Systems: Classical and Quantum Aspects

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.

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 C -smooth differentiable Frobenius manifold potential function F C ( R n ; R ) and denote their partial derivatives as
F i j ( t ) : = 2 F ( t ) t i t j , F i j k ( t ) : = 3 F ( t ) t i t j t k
for i , j , and k = 1 , n ¯ , n N . These partial derivatives are symmetrical, with respect to permutations of their indices. Let us assume additionally that the symmetric matrix η : = { η i j ( t ) : = F i j 1 ( t ) : i , j = 1 , n ¯ } is non-degenerate, and call it an induced metric on the R n . In addition,
F i j k ( t ) = s 1 , n ¯ η i s ( t ) C i j s ( t ) ,
where, by definition,
C i j s ( t ) : = k 1 , n ¯ F i j k ( t ) η k s ( t ) , k 1 , n ¯ η s k ( t ) η k j ( t ) = δ j s
for all i , j , and s N . Assume now that the set R n represents a local coordinate frame [6,7] of an a finite-dimensional manifold M . Then its tangent space T t ( M ) at a point t M is described by means of the local vector field system { / t i T t ( M ) : i = 1 , n ¯ } , which a priori commute to each other: [ / t i , / t j ] = 0 for all i , j = 1 , n ¯ . Let us now assume that the manifold M is a Frobenius manifold [8,9,10], i.e., its tangent space T t ( M ) at any point t M forms an associative Frobenius algebra  F M with respect to some multiplication on F M :
/ t i / t j : = s 1 , n ¯ C i j s ( t ) / t s , ( / t i / t j ) / t s = / t i ( / t j / t s )
for any i , j and s = 1 , n ¯ with the structure constants defined by the expression (3). Define now a set of matrices C i ( t ) : = { C i j k ( t ) = C j i k ( t ) : j , k 1 , n ¯ } , i = 1 , n ¯ . Then, as it easily follows from (4), the structure constants (3) should satisfy the following additional constraints:
[ C i ( t ) , C j ( t ) ] = 0 , C i ( t ) / t j = C j ( t ) / t i
for any t M and all i , j = 1 , n ¯ . (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 ( , e , η , E ) . Here : T ( M ) S T ( M ) T ( M ) is an associative and commutative multiplication on the tangent sheaf, so that T ( M ) becomes a sheaf of commutative algebras over the ring R { t } of convergent series with identity e T ( M ) , η is a metric on M (non-degenerate quadratic form T ( M ) S T ( M ) ), 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 η must be flat and –invariant, i.e., a | b c η = a b | c η for the metric · | · η on M and any a , b , and c T ( M ) . 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 F M , 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: 1 0 ) a flat structure T ( M ) on M subject to a flat connection d ω : Γ ( Λ ( M ) T ( M ) ) Γ ( Λ ( M ) T ( M ) ) , d ω d ω = 0 , is compatible with a multiplication , if in a neighborhood of any point there exists a vector field C Γ ( T ( M ) ) , such that for arbitrary local flat vector fields X , Y Γ ( T ( M ) ) one has
X Y = [ X , [ Y , C ] ] ,
where C Γ ( T ( M ) ) is called a local vector potential for ∘; 2 0 ) T ( M ) is called compatible with ( , e ) , e Γ ( T ( M ) ) is an identity element, if 1 0 ) holds and moreover, the identity element e : = / t 1 is flat, that is the corresponding covariant derivative X ω e = 0 for any X Γ ( T ( M ) ) . From (6) one easily ensues the relationships (5), where
C i j k ( t ) = / t i / t j C k ( t ) , / t 1 / t i = / t i ,
for any i , j , and k = 1 , n ¯ and t M .
As a very interesting example of the above construction can be obtained for the special case n = 3 . We can take into account a reduction of the commuting matrices C j End E 3 , j = 1 , 3 ¯ , presented in [1,2,3]. Namely, assume that a smooth Frobenius manifold potential function F C ( R n ; R ) is representable as
F ( t ) = 1 2 t 1 2 t 3 + 1 2 t 1 t 2 2 + f ( t 1 , t 2 , t 3 ) ,
where a smooth mapping f : R 3 R satisfies, following from (4) in the form ( / t 2 / t 2 ) / t 3 = / t 2 ( / t 2 / t 3 ) , / t 1 / t j = / t j , j = 1 , 3 ¯ , such a partial differential equation:
f t 2 t 2 t 3 2 f t 3 t 3 t 3 f t 2 t 2 t 2 f t 2 t 3 t 3 = 0
for any ( t 1 , t 2 , t 3 ) R 3 . 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 p C { 0 } ) linear differential equations:
x t 1 = 1 p C 1 x , x t 2 = 1 p C 2 x , x t 3 = 1 p C 3 x
on vectors x : = ( x 1 , x 2 , x 3 ) E 3 , determined by matrices
C 1 = 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 , C 2 = 0 b c 1 a b 0 1 0 , C 3 = 0 c b 2 a c 0 b c 1 0 0 ,
where a : = f t 2 t 2 t 2 , b : = f t 2 t 2 t 3 , c : = f t 2 t 3 t 3 and generating the corresponding loop D i f f ˜ ( R 3 ) -group diffeomorphisms. It is easy also to check that matrices (11) satisfy the matrix Equation (5), that is
[ C 2 , C 3 ] = 0 = [ C 1 , C j ] , C 3 / t 2 = C 2 / t 3 , [ C 2 , C 3 ] = 0 = C j / t 1 ,
for t M , j = 1 , 3 ¯ . 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
u t 1 = u x , v t 1 = v x , u t 2 = ( u 2 + 2 v ) x , v t 2 = ( v 2 2 u v ) x ,
and
u t 3 = ( 3 2 v 2 6 u v u 3 ) x , v t 3 = ( v 3 3 u 2 v + 3 u v 2 3 v 2 ) x , ,
on a pair of smooth functions ( u , v ) C ( M ; R 2 ) 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).
Proposition 1.
Let a function F : M R be defined by the following differential relationships
2 F ( t 1 , t 2 , t 3 ) t 1 t 2 = v , 2 F ( t 1 , t 2 , t 3 ) t 1 t 3 = v ( 2 u v ) , 2 F ( t 1 , t 2 , t 3 ) t 1 t 4 = 2 v [ v 2 + 3 v 3 u ( u v ) ] ,
where the pair of functions ( u , v ) C ( M ; R 2 ) satisfies the evolution flows (13) and (14). Then this function F : M R is a potential function of the Frobenius manifold M , describing the related Frobenius manifold algebraic structures.

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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