The Coxeter relations and KP map for non-commuting symbols

Abstract

We give an action of the symmetric group on non-commuting indeterminates in terms of series in the corresponding Mal'cev-Newmann division ring. The action is constructed from the non-Abelian Hirota-Miwa (discrete KP) system. The corresponding companion map, which gives generators of the action, is discussed in the generic case and the corresponding explicit formulas have been found in the periodic reduction. We discuss also briefly connection of the companion to the KP map with context-free languages.