We consider the WDVV associativity equations in the four dimensional case. These nonlinear equations of third order can be written as a pair of six component commuting two-dimensional non-diagonalizable hydrodynamic type systems. We prove that these systems possess a compatible pair of local homogeneous Hamiltonian structures of Dubrovin--Novikov type (of first and third order, respectively).
The Oriented Associativity equation plays a fundamental role in the theory of Integrable Systems. In this paper we prove that the equation, besides being Hamiltonian with respect to a first-order Hamiltonian operator, has a third-order non-local homogeneous Hamiltonian operator belonging to a class which has been recently studied, thus providing a highly non-trivial example in that class and showing intriguing connections with algebraic geometry.
We study smooth SU(2) solutions of the Hitchin equations on R^2, with the determinant of the complex Higgs field being a polynomial of degree n. When n>=3, there are moduli spaces of solutions, in the sense that the natural L^2 metric is well-defined on a subset of the parameter space. We examine rotationally-symmetric solutions for n=1 and n=2, and then focus on the n=3 case, elucidating the moduli and describing the asymptotic geometry as well as the geometry of two totally-geodesic surfaces.
Self-similar solutions of the so called Airy equations, equivalent to the dispersionless nonlinear Schrodinger equation written in Madelung coordinates, are found and studied from the point of view of complete integrability and of their role in the recurrence relation from a bi-Hamiltonian structure for the equations. This class of solutions reduces the PDEs to a finite ODE system which admits several conserved quantities, which allow to construct explicit solutions by quadratures and provide the bi-Hamiltonian formulation for the reduced ODEs.
We introduce a bi-Hamiltonian hierarchy on the cotangent bundle of the real Lie group ${mathrm GL}(n,{mathbb{C}})$, and study its Poisson reduction with respect to the action of the product group ${{mathrm U}(n)} times {{mathrm U}(n)}$ arising from left- and right-multiplications. One of the pertinent Poisson structures is the canonical one, while the other is suitably transferred from the real Heisenberg double of ${mathrm GL}(n,{mathbb{C}})$. When taking the quotient of $T^*{mathrm GL}(n,{mathbb{C}})$ we focus on the dense open subset of ${mathrm GL}(n,{mathbb{C}})$ whose elements have pairwise distinct singular values. We develop a convenient description of the Poisson algebras of the ${{mathrm U}(n)} times {{mathrm U}(n)}$ invariant functions, and show that one of the Hamiltonians of the reduced bi-Hamiltonian hierarchy yields a hyperbolic Sutherland model coupled to two ${mathfrak u}(n)^*$-valued spins. Thus we obtain a new bi-Hamiltonian interpretation of this model, which represents a special case of Sutherland models coupled to two spins obtained earlier from reductions of cotangent bundles of reductive Lie groups equipped with their canonical Poisson structure. Upon setting one of the spins to zero, we recover the bi-Hamiltonian structure of the standard hyperbolic spin Sutherland model that was derived recently by a different method.
The Lagrangian representation of multi-Hamiltonian PDEs has been introduced by Y. Nutku and one of us (MVP). In this paper we focus on systems which are (at least) bi-Hamiltonian by a pair $A_1$, $A_2$, where $A_1$ is a hydrodynamic-type Hamiltonian operator. We prove that finding the Lagrangian representation is equivalent to finding a generalized vector field $tau$ such that $A_2=L_tau A_1$. We use this result in order to find the Lagrangian representation when $A_2$ is a homogeneous third-order Hamiltonian operator, although the method that we use can be applied to any other homogeneous Hamiltonian operator. As an example we provide the Lagrangian representation of a WDVV hydrodynamic-type system in $3$ components.