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Generalized Drinfeld-Sokolov Hierarchies II: The Hamiltonian Structures

Nigel J. Burroughs, Mark F. deGroot, Timothy J. Hollowood, J. Luis Miramontes

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9109014

Abstract

In this paper we examine the bi-Hamiltonian structure of the generalized KdV-hierarchies. We verify that both Hamiltonian structures take the form of Kirillov brackets on the Kac-Moody algebra, and that they define a coordinated system. Classical extended conformal algebras are obtained from the second Poisson bracket. In particular, we construct the Wnl algebras, first discussed for the case n=3 and l=2 by A. Polyakov and M. Bershadsky.

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