Topological Field Theory approach to the Generalized Benney Hierarchy

Abstract

The integrability of the generalized Benney hierarchy with three primary fields is investigated from the point of view of two-dimensional topological field theories coupled to gravity. The associated primary free energy and correlation functions at genus zero are obtained via Landau-Ginzburg formulation and the string equation is derived using the twistor construction for the Orlov operators. By adopting the approach of Dubrovin and Zhang we obtain the genus-one corrections of the Poisson brackets of the generalized Benney hierarchy.