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Drinfeld–Sokolov hierarchies, tau functions, andgeneralized Schur polynomials

Mattia Cafasso, Ann Du Crest de Villeneuve, Di Yang

To cite this version:Mattia Cafasso, Ann Du Crest de Villeneuve, Di Yang. Drinfeld–Sokolov hierarchies, tau functions,and generalized Schur polynomials. 2017. �hal-01593128�

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Drinfeld–Sokolov hierarchies, tau functions, andgeneralized Schur polynomials

Mattia Cafasso∗, Ann du Crest de Villeneuve∗, Di Yang†

∗ LAREMA, Universite d’Angers, 2 boulevard Lavoisier, Angers 49000, [email protected], [email protected]

† Max-Planck-Institut fur Mathematik, Vivatsgasse 7, Bonn 53111, [email protected]

Abstract

For a simple Lie algebra g and an irreducible faithful representation π of g, we introducethe Schur polynomials of (g, π)-type. We then derive the Sato–Zhou type formula fortau functions of the Drinfeld–Sokolov (DS) hierarchy of g-type. Namely, we show thatthe tau functions are linear combinations of the Schur polynomials of (g, π)-type with thecoefficients being the Plucker coordinates. As an application, we provide a way of computingpolynomial tau functions for the DS hierarchy. For g of low rank, we give several examplesof polynomial tau functions, and use them to detect bilinear equations for the DS hierarchy.

1 Introduction

Given a simple Lie algebra g over C, Drinfeld and Sokolov in [14] explained how to associate toit a family of commuting bi–hamiltonian PDEs known as the Drinfeld–Sokolov (DS) hierarchy ofg–type. Nowadays, Drinfeld–Sokolov hierarchies are certainly among the most studied examplesof integrable systems; one of their remarkable properties is that they are tau–symmetric [19,18, 36, 7], meaning that they admit the so-called tau function of an arbitrary solution to thehierarchy. For the case g = sln(C) the DS hierarchy of g-type coincides (under a particularchoice of the DS gauge [14, 2]) with the Gelfand–Dickey hierarchy, and so, in particular, forn = 2, with the celebrated Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) hierarchy. It is known that tau functionsof the Gelfand–Dickey hierarchies can be expressed as linear combinations of Schur polynomialswith the coefficients being Plucker coordinates1 [32, 38, 3, 30]. In this short paper we aimto generalize this fact to an arbitrary given Lie algebra g. The generalization will depend onmatrix realizations of g (note that the tau function itself is independent of the realizations of g[6]!). Indeed, one of our main observations is that the generalization of Schur polynomials areassociated to faithful representations.

1Indeed, more generally this is true for the KP hierarchy, of which the Gelfand–Dickey hierarchies are reduc-tions.

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As an application of our result, we describe a systematic way of finding simple solutions (i.e.solutions whose tau function is a polynomial or a fractional power of it) of the DS hierarchy ofg-type. Of course, in the case of the hierarchies of type An, we recover the well-known results,since polynomial tau functions of these hierarchies (more generally of the KP hierarchy) hadbeen studied for many years, due to their relations with Backlund transformations [1] and thedynamical systems of Calogero type (see for instance [35] and the references therein). Moreover,it had been proved that the polynomial tau functions of the so–called BKP hierarchy can bewritten in terms of the projective representations of the symmetric group [37] and this hierarchy,moreover, contains as reductions some of the DS hierarchies of Dn-type, as explained in [12].Nevertheless, it seems to us that a systematic approach to the study of polynomial tau functionsassociated to the general case (i.e. for an arbitrary Lie algebra) is still missing, and this papergives a first result in this direction. The polynomial tau functions we obtain are, actually, quitenon–trivial, and can also be used to give some explicit information about the structure of thebilinear equations for the hierarchy.

In order to state precisely our results, we need to fix some notations about finite dimensionalLie algebras, loop algebras and Toeplitz determinants. Let g be a simple Lie algebra over C ofrank n, and h, h∨ the Coxeter and dual Coxeter numbers, respectively. Fix h a Cartan subalgebraof g. Take Π = {α1, . . . , αn} ⊂ h∗ a set of simple roots, and let △ ⊂ h∗ be the root system. Weknow that g has the root space decomposition

g = h⊕⊕

α∈△

gα.

Let θ denote the highest root with respect to Π, and (·|·) : g × g → C the normalized Cartan–Killing form, i.e. (θ|θ) = 2. For a root α ∈ △, denote by Hα the unique vector in h satisfying(Hα|Hβ) = (α|β), ∀ β ∈ △.

Let Ei ∈ gαi, Fi ∈ g−αi

, Hi = 2Hαi/(αi|αi) be a set of Weyl generators of g. They satisfy

[Ei, Fi] = Hi, [Hi, Ej] = Aij Ej, [Hi, Fj] = −Aij Fj, 1 ≤ i, j ≤ n,

where (Aij)ni,j=1 is the Cartan matrix of g. Choose E−θ ∈ g−θ, Eθ ∈ gθ, normalized by the

conditions (Eθ |E−θ) = 1 and ω(E−θ) = −Eθ, where ω : g → g is the Chevalley involution. LetI+ :=

∑ni=1Ei be a principal nilpotent element of g. Denote by L(g) = g ⊗ C[λ, λ−1] the loop

algebra of g. On L(g) there is the principal gradation defined by assigning

degEi = 1, degHi = 0, deg Fi = −1, i = 1, . . . , n, deg λ = h

such that L(g) decomposes into homogeneous subspaces

L(g) =⊕

j∈Z

L(g)j .

Here, elements in L(g)j have degree j. Define Λ ∈ L(g) by

Λ = I+ + λE−θ. (1)

Clearly, Λ is homogeneous of degree 1. Denote by L(g)<0 elements in L(g) with negative degrees,similarly, by L(g)≤0 elements with non-positive degrees.

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It was shown in [26, 29] that Ker adΛ ⊂ L(g) has the following decomposition

Ker adΛ =⊕

ℓ∈E

CΛℓ, deg Λℓ = ℓ ∈ E :=n⊔

i=1

(mi + hZ)

where the integers m1, . . . , mn are the exponents of g, and E is called the set of exponents ofL(g). We use E+ to denote the set of positive exponents. The elements Λi commute pairwise

[Λi,Λj] = 0, ∀ i, j ∈ E. (2)

They can be normalized by

Λma+kh = Λmaλk, k ∈ Z,

(Λma|Λmb

) = hλ δa+b,n+1.

In particular, we can choose Λ1 = Λ.

Let us now takeπ : g → gl(m,C) (3)

an irreducible faithful representation. When no confusion can arise, for b ∈ g, we write π(b)simply as b. Our generalization will be based on the infinite Grassmannian approach [32, 33] andthe related Plucker coordinates.

Notations:a) For M =

∑k∈Z Mk λ

k with Mk ∈ gl(m,C), define the Laurent matrix L(M) associated withM by

[L(M)]IJ = MI−J , I, J ∈ Z. (4)

Here, capital-letter indices I, J,K, . . . are used for block row/column coordinates, and small-letter indices are for ordinary row/column coordinates.b) Y will denote the set of all partitions; for λ = (λ1 ≥ λ2 ≥ . . . ) ∈ Y, ℓ(λ) denotes the length ofλ, |λ| the weight of λ; denote by λ = ( k1, . . . , kd | l1, . . . , ld ) be the Frobenius notation of λ withd being the Frobenius rank.

Definition 1.1. Let ξ :=∑

ℓ∈E+tℓ Λℓ with tℓ, ℓ ∈ E+ being indeterminates and let s denote the

Laurent matrix associated with eξ, namely,

s := L(eξ). (5)

The Schur polynomials of (g, π)-type are labelled by partitions and defined by

sλ := det(si−1, j−λj−1

)ℓ(λ)i,j=1

, λ ∈ Y− ∅,

s∅ := 1. (6)

Definition 1.2. In the case π is taken as the adjoint representation of g, we call sλ, λ ∈ Y theintrinsic Schur polynomials of g-type.

Remark 1.3. In the case g = An. Take π(g) the well-known matrix realization of g, i.e. π(g) =sln+1(C). We have Λ =

∑ni=1Ei,i−1+λE1,n+1. The Schur polynomials of (g, π)-type then coincide

with the Schur polynomials [30] under the restriction t(n+1)k ≡ 0, k = 1, 2, 3, . . . .

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Definition 1.4. ∀X ∈ λ−1g[[λ−1]], denote by rX the Laurent matrix associated with eX , i.e.

rX := L(eX). (7)

For λ = (λ1, . . . , λℓ(λ)) ∈ Y, define

rX,λ := det (rX,i−λi−1,j−1)ℓ(λ)i,j=1 .

Definition 1.5. For ξ =∑

ℓ∈E+tℓ Λℓ (as above), and for any X ∈ λ−1g[[λ−1]], define matrices

DIJ and ZX,IJ (I, J ≥ 0) by

I − eξ(λ) e−ξ(µ)

λ− µ=

∞∑

I,J=0

DIJ λI+1µJ+1, (8)

I − eX(λ) e−X(µ)

λ− µ=

∞∑

I,J=0

ZX, IJ λ−I−1µ−J−1. (9)

Define s(i|j), r(i|j) (i, j ≥ 0) via

(DIJ)ab = sm·I+a−1,m·J+m−b,

(ZX, IJ)ab = rm·I+m−a,m·J+b−1

where a, b = 1, . . . , m. We call ZX, IJ the matrix-valued affine coordinates and rX, (i|j) the affinecoordinates.

Remark 1.6. The matrix-valued affine coordinates ZX, IJ and their generating formula (9) wereintroduced in [3] by F. Balogh and one of the authors of the present paper for the sl2(C) case.

The following theorem is the main result of the paper. Denote by κ the constant such that

(a|b) = κTr(π(a)π(b)) ∀a, b ∈ g. (10)

Theorem 1.7. For any X ∈ λ−1g[[λ−1]], the formal series τ defined by

τ :=

(∑

ν∈Y

rX,ν sν

(11)

is a tau function of the Drinfeld–Sokolov hierarchy of g-type. Moreover, sν and rX,ν have thefollowing expressions

sν = det(s(ki|lj)

)di,j=1

, (12)

rX,ν = (−1)l1+···+ld det(rX,(ki|lj)

)di,j=1

. (13)

We refer to (11)–(13) as the Sato–Zhou type formula for tau functions of the DS hierarchy.

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Remark 1.8. As the reader might already have noticed, here the terminology is very similar to theone used to deal with the KP hierarchy in the Sato’s approach. However, it is worth mentioningthat tau functions of the DS hierarchies of g-type in general are not KP tau functions (except forg = sln+1(C)). One way to see it (which is close to the spirit of this paper) is that the generalizedSchur polynomials sν of (g, π)-type we defined are “reductions” (in the sense of the Remark 1.3)of the usual ones [30] just in the An case.

Remark 1.9. The formula (11) is intrinsic when π is taken as the adjoint representation of g.We will study the intrinsic Schur polynomials associated to g in a future publication.

Remark 1.10. For the ABCD cases, a result similar to Theorem 1.7 was obtained in [39] wherea different method was used; see also in [4] for more details for the An case.

Organization of the paper In Section 2 we review the Drinfeld–Sokolov hierarchies and theirtau functions. In Section 3 we prove Theorem 1.7. Some explicit examples and applications aregiven in Section 4. A list of first few Schur polynomials of (g, π)-type for g of low ranks andparticular choices of π are given in the Appendix.

Acknowledgements We would like to thank Ferenc Balogh, Marco Bertola, Boris Dubrovin,John Harnad, Leonardo Patimo, Daniele Valeri, Chao-Zhong Wu and Jian Zhou for helpfuldiscussions. D.Y. is grateful to Youjin Zhang and Boris Dubrovin for their advisings, and toVictor Kac for helpful suggestions. Part of our work was done at SISSA; we acknowledge SISSAfor excellent working conditions and generous supports. A.D. and M.C. thank the Centre HenriLebesgue ANR-11-LABX-0020-01 for creating an attractive mathematical environment. Partof the work of D.Y. was done during his visits to LAREMA; he acknowledges the support ofLAREMA and warm hospitality.

2 Review of the Grassmannian approach to the DS hier-

archy

Denote by b the Borel subalgebra of g, i.e. b := g≤0, and by n the nilpotent subalgebra n := g<0.Define a linear operator L by

L := ∂x + Λ + q(x) (14)

where q(x) ∈ b. It is proved by V. G. Drinfeld and V. V. Sokolov [14] that there exists a uniquesmooth function U(x) ∈ g((λ−1))<0 ∩ Im adΛ such that

e−adU(x)L = ∂x + Λ +H(x), H(x) ∈ Ker adΛ.

The following commuting system of PDEs

∂L

∂tℓ= −

[(eadUΛℓ)≥0 , L

], ℓ ∈ E+ (15)

are called the pre-DS hierarchy of g-type.

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Gauge transformations. For any smooth function N(x) ∈ n, the map

L 7→ L = eadNL = ∂x + Λ + q

is called a gauge transformation. A vector space V ⊂ g is called a DS gauge if it satisfies

[I+, n]⊕ V = b. (16)

Below we fix V a DS gauge. It was observed in [14] that the flows (15) can be reduced to gaugeequivalent classes; moreover, for any q(x) ∈ b, there exists a unique N(x) such that q(x) ∈ V .Let us denote

Lcan := ∂x + Λ + qcan(x), qcan(x) ∈ V.

Take v1, . . . , vn a homogeneous basis of V , namely deg vi = −mi, and write

qcan(x) =

n∑

i=1

ui(x) vi.

The DS hierarchy of g-type is defined as the system of the pre-DS flows for the complete setof representatives (aka gauge invariants) u1, . . . , un. Clearly, the precise form2 of this integrablehierarchy depends on the choice of the DS gauge V ; the hierarchies under different choices of Vare Miura equivalent [?, 24, 25, 19, 6]. We remark that a unified algorithm of writing the DShierarchy of g-type for an arbitrary choice V was obtained recently in [6]; it has the form

∂ui

∂tℓ= aiℓ[u

1, . . . , un], ℓ ∈ E+ (17)

where ai,ℓ[u1, . . . , un] are differential polynomials of u1, . . . , un. It should also be noted that for

the DS hierarchy of g-type the time variable t1 can be identified with −x.

The hierarchy (17) is known to be Hamiltonian and tau-symmetric [19, 24, 36, 7]. Therefore,for an arbitrary solution qcan of (17), there exists a tau function τ(t) of qcan. The tau function isdetermined up to a multiplicative factor of the form

exp(∑

ℓ∈E+

cℓ tℓ

)

where cℓ are arbitrary constants. We review in this subsection the Grassmannian approach totau functions.

Denote E = Cm where m is defined in (3). Let H := E((λ−1)) be the linear space of E-valuedformal series in z with finitely many positive powers and let H+ := E[z]. Denote by Gr theSato–Segal–Wilson Grassmannian [32, 33]. A point W ∈ Gr is a subspace of H . Here we areinterested in the big cell Gr(0) ⊂ Gr which consists of points W of the form

W = SpanC

{ei λ

ℓ +∑

k≥0

Ak,ℓ,i ei λ−k−1

}

i=1,...,m, ℓ≥0

.

Here Ak,ℓ,i are called the affine coordinates [20] of W .

2It also depends on scalings of the basis vi which gives rise to scalings of ui. Such a coordinate change is trivial(In the case g = Deven other linear transformation of ui needs to be considered but is again trivial).

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Definition 2.1. Define Gr(0)g as the following subset of the big cell Gr(0)

Gr(0)g ={eaH+ | a ∈ λ−1g[[λ−1]]

}.

We call Gr(0)g the embedded big cell of g-type.

For a ∈ λ−1g[[λ−1]], write G = ea =∑

k≥0Gkλ−k. The matrices G0, G1, . . . serve as the

matrix-valued coordinates for the point W corresponding to a; see Fig. 1. Clearly, G0 = I.

...... . .

.

· · ·

· · ·

· · ·

· · ·

. . .

G2

G1

G0

G3

G2

G1

G0

Figure 1: Matrix-valued coordinates in Sato–Segal–Wilson Grassmannian

Definition 2.2. ∀M =∑

k∈Z Mk λk, Mk ∈ gl(m,C), the N-th (N ≥ 0) block Toeplitz matrix

associated to M is defined byTN (M) = (MI−J)

NI,J=0.

The following theorem comes from the results obtained in [9, 10].

Theorem A. (Cafasso–Wu [9, 10]) For any X ∈ λ−1g[[λ−1]], let γ = eξeX . Define τ = τ(t) by

τ =[lim

N→∞det TN (γ)

]κ, (18)

where κ is defined in (10). Then τ is a tau function of the DS hierarchy associated to g.

Remark 2.3. The stabilization proved in [22] for the case of the Witten–Kontsevich tau functionand extended in [10] for the general cases ensures that the limit in (18) is meaningful.

3 Proof of Theorem 1.7

Define γ = eξeX , where we recall that X is the given element in λ−1g[[λ−1]], and ξ =∑

ℓ∈E+tℓ Λℓ.

We haveL(γ) = L(eξ)L(eX) = s rX

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where s, rX are defined in (5), (7), respectively. For any N ≥ 1, define two matrices

sN = (sN , ij)i∈{0,...,N}, j∈{−N−1,...,N}

andrN = (rN , ij)i∈{−N−1,...,N}, j∈{0,...,N}

bysN, ij := L(eξ)ij, rN, ij := L(eX)ij .

Then we havelim

N→∞det TN(γ) = lim

N→∞det(sN rN).

By using the well-known Cauchy–Binet formula (see for instance [21]) we obtain [32, 20] fromTheorem A that

τ 1/κ =∑

λ∈Y

rX,λ sλ

where we recall that rX,λ and sλ are defined by

rX,λ = det (ri−λi−1,j−1)ℓ(λ)i,j=1

andsλ = det

(si−1,j−λj−1

)ℓ(λ)i,j=1

.

As explained in [3], formulae (8) and (9) give the Gaussian eliminations and formulae (12)and (13) are due to the Giambelli-type formula [20, 30, 3]. The theorem is proved.

4 Polynomial tau functions and bilinear equations

Theorem 1.7 gives a simple procedure to compute the tau function τ when τ 1/κ is a polynomial.Indeed, let us fix the Lie algebra g and take a faithful representation π. Choosing X ∈ λ−1g[[λ−1]]such that π(X) is a nilpotent matrix, the infinite series in (11) becomes finite, as it is easy toverify that only finitely many Plucker coordinates {rµ, µ ∈ Y} are non zero. Consequently, τ 1/κ

is polynomial. This simple idea was used for example in [3] for the KdV hierarchy. If κ = 1,then the tau function itself is a polynomial. Interestingly enough, in the computations we willperform, even when κ = 1/2, we obtain some polynomial tau functions: in other words, the finitesum in (11) is a perfect square. Even if this result has not been proved in general, we expect thatour procedure gives a systematic way to compute all the polynomials tau functions (up to a shiftof the time variables {ti, i ∈ E+}) of the DS hierarchy of g-type. As stated in the introductionof [28], this is an interesting open problem.

In what follows we compute the first few polynomial tau functions of the DS hierarchy ofg-type for g = A1, A2, B2 and D4. We use these particular tau functions to deduce possiblebilinear equations of small degrees. Note that each Drinfeld–Sokolov hierarchy has infinitelymany solutions. The usual question is to find particular solutions to the DS hierarchy (solve allPDEs in this hierarchy together). Here we consider the inverse:

Deduce possible PDEs from particular solutions.

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Sometimes, one particular solution already contains all the information of an equation andof the whole hierarchy. For example, the “topological solution” was used by B. Dubrovin andY. Zhang to construct the integrable hierarchy of topological type [19, 17]. However, a polynomialtau function τpoly of the DS hierarchy contains less information, namely, if τpoly satisfies somePDE, it will not guarantee directly that other tau functions of the DS hierarchy satisfy this PDE.Nevertheless, if τpoly does not satisfy a PDE, then the PDE cannot belong to the DS hierarchy.

4.1 Bilinear derivatives

Given two smooth functions f(x), g(x) with independent variables x = (xi)i∈I , where I denotesan index set. The bilinear derivatives Di1 · · ·Dik are operators defined via the identity

e∑

i∈I hi Di(f, g) ≡ f(x+ h) g(x− h), ∀h.

It means that, expanding both sides of this identity in h

e∑

i∈I hi Di(f, g) = (f, g) +∑

i∈I

hi Di(f, g) +∑

i,j∈I

hihj

2DiDj(f, g) + · · · ,

f(x+ h) g(x− h) = f(x)g(x) +∑

i∈I

hi

( ∂f∂xi

g − f∂g

∂xi

)+ · · ·

and comparing the coefficients of monomials of h, we obtain, for example,

Di(f, g) =∂f

∂xi

g − f∂g

∂xi

,

DiDj(f, g) =∂2f

∂xi∂xj

g + f∂2g

∂xi∂xj

−∂f

∂xi

∂g

∂xj

−∂f

∂xj

∂g

∂xi

.

For the Drinfeld–Sokolov hierarchy of g-type, we take I := E+. There is a natural gradationfor the bilinear derivatives, defined by assigning degDi = i for i ∈ E+. Denote by Hg thelinear space of bilinear equations satisfied by the Drinfeld–Sokolov hierarchies of g-type, whichdecomposes into homogeneous subspaces

Hg =⊕

i

H[i]g .

The gradation allows us to list all possible bilinear equations up to certain degree.

4.2 Examples of polynomial tau functions

4.2.1 The A1 case

Let us chose the standard matrix realization g = sl(2;C). Consider the following two elementsin λ−1g[[λ−1]]

1

λF =

1

λ

(0 01 0

),

1

λE =

1

λ

(0 10 0

). (19)

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The associated polynomial tau functions are

τ1 = 1 + t1, τ2 = 1 + t3 −t313

(20)

respectively. Similarly, one computes polynomial tau functions corresponding to elements of theform λ−kF , λ−kE, k ≥ 2. For example, for k = 2, we obtain

τ3 = 1 + 2t3 − t5t1 + t23 +t313+

1

3t3t

31 −

1

45t61, (21)

τ4 = 1− t3t7 + 2t5 + t25 + t33t1 − t3t5t21 − t3t

21 +

1

3t7t

31 −

t5115

−1

15t5t

51 +

1

105t3t

71 −

t1014725

, (22)

corresponding to λ−2F and λ−2E, respectively.

Now consider all bilinear equations up to degree 4:

(β + α0D21 + α1D

41 + α2D1D3)(τ, τ) = 0 (23)

where β, α0, α1, α2 are complex constants. Requiring that τ1, τ2 satisfy the above ansatz (23), wefind that up to a multiplicative constant there is only one possible choice of coefficients:

(D41 − 4D1D3)(τ, τ) = 0. (24)

Similarly up to degree 6, we find out only two more possible linearly independent bilinear equa-tions that are satisfied by τ1, τ2, τ3, τ4

(D61 + 20D3

1D3 − 96D1D5)(τ, τ) = 0, (25)

(D31D3 + 2D2

3 − 6D1D5)(τ, τ) = 0, (26)

which are well known to belong to the hierarchy of A1-type, that is the KdV hierarchy. Conse-quently, we have shown that

dimC H[deg≤6]A1

≤ 3.

Moreover, (24)–(26) are the three only possible choices of homogeneous basis (up to constant

factors) of H[deg≤6]g .

Relation with the Adler–Moser polynomials. An alternative way of computing polynomialtau functions for the KdV hierarchy was given by Adler and Moser [1]. Define a family ofpolynomials θk(x = q1, q3, q5, . . . , q2k−1), k ≥ 0 recursively by

θ0 = 1, θ1 = x,

θ′k+1θk−1 + θk+1θ′k−1 = (2k − 1)θ2k, ∀ k ≥ 2,

where the prime denotes the x-derivative and for each k ≥ 2 the integration constant is chosento be q2k−1. The polynomials θk are known as the Adler–Moser polynomials. It was also provenin [1] that there exists a unique change of variables q → t that transforms the Adler–Moserpolynomials into the polynomial tau functions of the KdV hierarychy. In [15], one of the authorsof the present paper proved that the desired change of variables is given by q1 = t1 = x and

i≥2

q2i−1

α2i−1z2i−1 = tanh

(∑

i≥2

t2i−1z2i−1

),

where α2i−1 := (−1)i−132 · · · (2i− 3)2(2i− 1). Up to a shift and renormalisation of the times, werecover in particular the polynomials given in equations (20)–(22).

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4.2.2 The A2 case

We still chose the standard matrix realization g = sl(3;C). Consider for example the followingtwo elements in λ−1g[[λ−1]] :

X1 =1

λ

0 0 0a1 0 0a2 a3 0

, X2 =1

λ

0 a1 a20 0 a30 0 0

, (27)

where a1, a2, a3 are arbitrary constants. The corresponding polynomial tau functions will bedenoted by τ1, τ2, respectively. We have

τ1 = 1 + a2t1 +1

2a1t

2

1−

1

2a3t

2

1+

1

8a1a3t

4

1−

1

160a2

1a3t

6

1+

1

160a1a

2

3t6

1−

a2

1a2

3t81

1792+ a1t2 + a3t2 +

1

16a2

1a3t

4

1t2

+1

16a1a

2

3t4

1t2 +

3

2a1a3t

2

2−

1

8a2

1a3t

2

1t2

2+

1

8a1a

2

3t2

1t2

2+

1

32a2

1a2

3t4

1t2

2+

1

4a2

1a3t

3

2+

1

4a1a

2

3t3

2+

1

16a2

1a2

3t4

2−

1

4a2

1a3t

2

1t4

−1

4a1a

2

3t2

1t4 −

1

2a2

1a3t2t4 +

1

2a1a

2

3t2t4 −

1

4a2

1a2

3t2

1t2t4 −

1

4a2

1a2

3t2

4+

1

2a2

1a3t1t5 −

1

2a1a

2

3t1t5 +

1

4a2

1a2

3t1t7 ,

τ2 = 1−1

8a1t

4

1+

1

8a3t

4

1+

1

20a2t

5

1+

1

640a1a3t

8

1−

a2

1a3t

12

1

358400+

a1a2

3t121

358400−

a2

1a2

3t161

90112000−

1

2a1t

2

1t2 −

1

2a3t

2

1t2 −

a2

1a3t

10

1t2

12800−

a1a2

3t101

t2

12800+

1

2a1t

2

2−

1

2a3t

2

2

− a2t1t2

2+

1

16a1a3t

4

1t2

2−

13a2

1a3t

8

1t22

17920+

13a1a2

3t81t22

17920+

3a2

1a2

3t121

t22

1126400−

1

320a2

1a3t

6

1t3

2−

1

320a1a

2

3t6

1t3

2−

3

8a1a3t

4

2−

1

128a2

1a3t

4

1t4

2+

1

128a1a

2

3t4

1t4

2

−a2

1a2

3t81t42

10240−

1

32a2

1a3t

2

1t5

2−

1

32a1a

2

3t2

1t5

2−

1

32a2

1a3t

6

2+

1

32a1a

2

3t6

2+

1

256a2

1a2

3t4

1t6

2+

1

256a2

1a2

3t8

2+ a1t4 + a3t4 +

a2

1a3t

8

1t4

1280+

a1a2

3t81t4

1280

−3

2a1a3t

2

1t2t4+

1

160a2

1a3t

6

1t2t4−

1

160a1a

2

3t6

1t2t4−

a2

1a2

3t101

t2t4

12800+

1

32a2

1a3t

4

1t2

2t4+

1

32a1a

2

3t4

1t2

2t4−

1

8a2

1a3t

2

1t3

2t4+

1

8a1a

2

3t2

1t3

2t4−

1

320a2

1a2

3t6

1t3

2t4

−3

16a2

1a3t

4

2t4 −

3

16a1a

2

3t4

2t4 −

1

32a2

1a2

3t2

1t5

2t4 +

3

2a1a3t

2

4+

1

32a2

1a3t

4

1t2

4−

1

32a1a

2

3t4

1t2

4+

a2

1a2

3t81t24

2560−

3

8a2

1a3t

2

1t2t

2

4−

3

8a1a

2

3t2

1t2t

2

4−

1

8a2

1a3t

2

2t2

4

+1

8a1a

2

3t2

2t2

4+

1

64a2

1a2

3t4

1t2

2t2

4−

3

32a2

1a2

3t4

2t2

4+

1

4a2

1a3t

3

4+

1

4a1a

2

3t3

4−

1

8a2

1a2

3t2

1t2t

3

4+

1

16a2

1a2

3t4

4+ a2t5 +

1

2a1a3t

3

1t5 +

3a2

1a3t

7

1t5

1120−

3a1a2

3t71t5

1120

+a2

1a2

3t111

t5

140800+

1

80a2

1a3t

5

1t2t5 +

1

80a1a

2

3t5

1t2t5 +

1

8a2

1a3t

3

1t2

2t5 −

1

8a1a

2

3t3

1t2

2t5 +

1

320a2

1a2

3t7

1t2

2t5 +

1

4a2

1a3t1t

3

2t5 +

1

4a1a

2

3t1t

3

2t5 −

1

32a2

1a2

3t3

1t4

2t5

+1

4a2

1a3t

3

1t4t5 +

1

4a1a

2

3t3

1t4t5 −

1

2a2

1a3t1t2t4t5 +

1

2a1a

2

3t1t2t4t5 +

1

80a2

1a2

3t5

1t2t4t5 +

1

4a2

1a2

3t1t

3

2t4t5 +

1

8a2

1a2

3t3

1t2

4t5 +

1

4a2

1a3t

2

1t2

5−

1

4a1a

2

3t2

1t2

5

−1

160a2

1a2

3t6

1t2

5−

1

2a2

1a3t2t

2

5−

1

2a1a

2

3t2t

2

5−

1

8a2

1a2

3t2

1t2

2t2

5−

1

2a2

1a2

3t2t4t

2

5−

1

4a2

1a2

3t1t

3

5−

1

40a2

1a3t

5

1t7 +

1

40a1a

2

3t5

1t7 +

1

2a2

1a3t1t

2

2t7 −

1

2a1a

2

3t1t

2

2t7

−1

2a2

1a3t5t7 +

1

2a1a

2

3t5t7 −

1

16a2

1a3t

4

1t8 −

1

16a1a

2

3t4

1t8 −

1

4a2

1a3t

2

1t2t8 +

1

4a1a

2

3t2

1t2t8 −

1

160a2

1a2

3t6

1t2t8 +

1

4a2

1a3t

2

2t8 +

1

4a1a

2

3t2

2t8 +

1

8a2

1a2

3t2

1t3

2t8

+1

2a2

1a3t4t8 −

1

2a1a

2

3t4t8 −

1

16a2

1a2

3t4

1t4t8 +

1

4a2

1a2

3t2

2t4t8 +

1

2a2

1a2

3t1t2t5t8 −

1

4a2

1a2

3t2

8+

1

80a2

1a2

3t5

1t11 −

1

4a2

1a2

3t1t

2

2t11 +

1

4a2

1a2

3t5t11 .

Consider all possible bilinear equations of degree 4:

(α1D41 + α2D

22)(τ, τ) = 0,

Requiring τ1 satisfies this ansatz we find that there is only one possible choice:

(D41 + 3D2

2)(τ, τ) = 0.

Similarly, requiring that τ1 and τ2 to both satisfy the ansatz of bilinear equation of degree 6, wefind that there are only two linearly independent bilinear equations of degree 6:

(D61 + 45D2

1D22 + 90D2D4 − 216D1D5)(τ, τ) = 0,

(D61 + 15D2

1D22 + 60D2D4 − 96D1D5)(τ, τ) = 0,

which are well known to belong to the hierarchy of A2-type (i.e. the Boussinesq hierarchy).

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4.2.3 The B2 case

We chose the matrix realization of the B2 simple Lie algebra as in [14]. We consider two explicitexamples given respectively by the following matrices3

X1 =1

λ

0 0 0 0 0a2 0 0 0 0a3 a5 0 0 0a4 0 a5 0 00 a4 −a3 a2 0

, X2 =1

λ

0 0 a3 a4 00 0 0 0 a40 0 0 0 −a30 0 0 0 00 0 0 0 0

.

The associated tau functions will be denoted by τ1 and τ2. They have the expressions

τ1 = 1 +1

2a4t1 +

1

4a3t

2

1+

1

12a2t

3

1−

1

12a5t

3

1−

1

192a2

3t4

1+

1

96a2a4t

4

1+

1

192a3a5t

5

1+

a2a5t6

1

1920−

1

720a2

5t6

1−

a2a4a5t7

1

11520−

a2a3a5t8

1

53760−

a2

2a5t

9

1

483840

+a2a

2

5t91

1088640+

a2a4a2

5t101

3110400+

11a2a3a2

5t111

87091200+

43a2

2a2

5t121

2090188800−

79a2a3

5t121

2874009600−

37a2

2a3

5t151

1931334451200+

a2

2a4

5t181

115880067072000+

1

2a2t3 + a5t3 −

1

8a2

3t1t3

+1

4a2a4t1t3 +

1

8a3a5t

2

1t3 +

1

16a2a5t

3

1t3 −

1

24a2

5t3

1t3 +

1

192a2a4a5t

4

1t3 +

1

640a2a3a5t

5

1t3 +

a2

2a5t

6

1t3

3840−

a2a2

5t61t3

1080−

a2a4a2

5t71t3

34560−

a2a3a2

5t81t3

193536

−31a2

2a2

5t91t3

17418240+

11a2a3

5t91t3

8709120+

101a2

2a3

5t121

t3

22992076800−

29a2

2a4

5t151

t3

6437781504000+

3

4a2a5t

2

3+

1

4a2

5t2

3+

1

16a2a4a5t1t

2

3+

5

288a2a

2

5t3

1t2

3+

a2a4a2

5t41t23

1152+

7a2a3a2

5t51t23

23040

+a2

2a2

5t61t23

138240−

17a2a3

5t61t23

69120−

13a2

2a3

5t91t23

34836480+

a2

2a4

5t121

t23

2043740160+

1

16a2

2a5t

3

3+

11

36a2a

2

5t3

3+

1

144a2a4a

2

5t1t

3

3−

1

576a2a3a

2

5t2

1t3

3+

a2

2a2

5t31t33

3456+

7a2a3

5t31t33

1728

−11a2

2a3

5t61t33

414720−

a2

2a4

5t91t33

34836480+

25

576a2

2a2

5t4

3+

5

144a2a

3

5t4

3+

a2

2a3

5t31t43

3456−

a2

2a4

5t61t43

552960+

5

576a2

2a3

5t5

3+

a2

2a4

5t63

2304−

1

4a2a5t1t5 +

1

4a2

5t1t5 −

1

16a2a4a5t

2

1t5

−1

48a2a3a5t

3

1t5 −

1

192a2

2a5t

4

1t5 +

1

72a2a

2

5t4

1t5 +

a2a4a2

5t51t5

5760−

11a2a3a2

5t61t5

69120+

a2

2a2

5t71t5

483840+

41a2a3

5t71t5

483840−

a2

2a3

5t101

t5

17418240+

a2

2a4

5t131

t5

4379443200

−1

8a2a3a5t3t5 −

1

8a2

2a5t1t3t5 −

1

24a2a

2

5t1t3t5 −

1

48a2a4a

2

5t2

1t3t5 −

5

576a2a3a

2

5t3

1t3t5 −

a2

2a2

5t41t3t5

1152+

7a2a3

5t41t3t5

1152+

29a2

2a3

5t71t3t5

967680

−a2

2a4

5t101

t3t5

116121600−

1

24a2a3a

2

5t2

3t5 −

7

96a2

2a2

5t1t

2

3t5 −

1

48a2a

3

5t1t

2

3t5 +

a2

2a3

5t41t23t5

1152+

a2

2a4

5t71t23t5

258048−

11

576a2

2a3

5t1t

3

3t5 +

a2

2a4

5t41t33t5

9216−

1

768a2

2a4

5t1t

4

3t5

−1

24a2a4a

2

5t2

5−

1

32a2a3a

2

5t1t

2

5+

1

64a2

2a2

5t2

1t2

5−

1

96a2a

3

5t2

1t2

5−

a2

2a3

5t51t25

2304−

a2

2a4

5t81t25

1290240+

1

192a2

2a3

5t2

1t3t

2

5−

a2

2a4

5t51t3t

2

5

7680+

a2

2a4

5t31t35

2304−

1

192a2

2a4

5t3t

3

5

+1

8a2a3a5t1t7 +

1

16a2

2a5t

2

1t7 −

1

8a2a

2

5t2

1t7 +

1

288a2a3a

2

5t4

1t7 +

a2

2a2

5t51t7

1440−

1

640a2a

3

5t5

1t7 −

a2

2a3

5t81t7

967680−

a2

2a4

5t111

t7

87091200+

1

12a2a3a

2

5t1t3t7

+1

24a2

2a2

5t2

1t3t7 −

1

16a2a

3

5t2

1t3t7 −

a2

2a3

5t51t3t7

11520−

a2

2a4

5t81t3t7

1935360+

1

192a2

2a3

5t2

1t2

3t7 −

a2

2a4

5t51t23t7

46080+

a2

2a4

5t21t33t7

1152+

1

12a2

2a2

5t5t7 −

1

12a2a

3

5t5t7

+1

576a2

2a3

5t3

1t5t7 +

7a2

2a4

5t61t5t7

138240+

1

24a2

2a3

5t3t5t7 +

a2

2a4

5t31t3t5t7

1152+

1

96a2

2a4

5t2

3t5t7 +

1

192a2

2a4

5t1t

2

5t7 −

1

48a2

2a3

5t1t

2

7−

a2

2a4

5t41t27

2304−

1

96a2

2a4

5t1t3t

2

7,

τ2 = 1 +1

288a3t

6

1−

a4t7

1

2016−

a2

3t121

11612160−

1

12a3t

3

1t3 +

1

48a4t

4

1t3 −

a2

3t91t3

69120+

1

2a3t

2

3−

1

2a4t1t

2

3−

a2

3t61t23

1920

−1

48a2

3t3

1t3

3+

1

16a2

3t4

3+

a2

3t71t5

4032−

1

96a2

3t4

1t3t5 +

1

4a2

3t1t

2

3t5 + a4t7 +

1

160a2

3t5

1t7 −

1

2a2

3t5t7.

Consider all bilinear equations up to degree 4

(α0 + α1D21 + α2D

41 + α3D1D3)(τ, τ) = 0

where α0, . . . , α3 are constants. Requiring that τ1 satisfies this ansatz of bilinear equations wefind that there is no solution. Similarly, up to degree 8, we find that there are only two possiblehomogeneous equations (one is of degree 6 and the other is of degree 8). We arrive at

3X2 is not the most general upper triangular element of homogeneous degree −1, as in this case the taufunction is too big to be written.

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Proposition 4.1. The following dimension estimates hold true

dimC H[deg≤4]B2

= 0, dimC H[deg≤6]B2

≤ 1, dimC H[deg≤8]B2

≤ 2.

Moreover, the only possible elements in H[deg≤8]B2

are linear combinations of

(D61 − 5D3

1D3 − 5D23 + 9D1D5)(τ,τ) = 0,

and(D8

1 + 7D51D3 − 35D2

1D23 − 21D3

1D5 − 42D3D5 + 90D1D7)(τ, τ) = 0.

Remark 4.2. As far as we know, explicit bilinear equations for the DS hierarchy of B2-typeare not pointed out in the literature, except that there is a super-variable version given in [28].However, the relationship between the super bilinear equations of Kac–Wakimoto [28] and the DShierarchy of B2-type is not known. Finding explicit generating series of bilinear equations for theDS hierarchy of B2-type remains an open question. It is also interesting to remark that the verysame equations are contained in [13], as the first two equations of the BKP hierarchy.

4.2.4 The D4 case

Take the matrix realization of g as in [14, 5]. Consider the particular point of the Sato Grass-mannian of D4-type given by

γ = 1 + λEθ.

We put t11 = 0. It follows from Theorem 1.7 that the corresponding tau function is given by

τ =(1−

1

2s(7|6) −

1

2s(6|7) −

1

4s(7,6|7,6)

) 12

where s(7,6|7,6) = s(7|7)s(6|6) − s(7|6)s(6|7), s(6|6) = s(7|7) = 0, and

s(6|7) = s(7|6) =t111

1900800−

1

480t5t

61 +

1

160t23t

51 +

1

120t23′t

51 +

1

80t3t3′t

51

−1

8t33t

21 −

1

4t3t

23′t

21 −

3

8t23t3′t

21 +

1

2t25t1 +

3

4t23t5 + t23′t5 +

3

2t3t3′t5.

(28)

Hence we have

τ = 1−1

2s(7|6) =1−

t1113801600

+1

960t5t

61 −

1

320t23t

51 −

1

240t23′t

51 −

1

160t3t3′t

51

+1

16t33t

21 +

1

8t3t

23′t

21 +

3

16t23t3′t

21 −

1

4t25t1 −

3

8t23t5 −

1

2t23′t5 −

3

4t3t3′t5.

Proposition 4.3. The following dimension estimates hold true

dimC H[deg≤4]D4

= 0, dimC H[deg≤6]D4

≤ 3.

Moreover, the only possible elements in H[deg≤6]D4

are linear combinations of

(2D31D3′ + 4D3D3′ − 3D2

3′)(τ, τ) = 0, (29)

(D31D3 − D3

1D3′ + D3D3′ − D23)(τ, τ) = 0, (30)

(D61 + 9D1D5 − 10D3

1D3 + 5D31D3′ − 5D3D3′)(τ, τ) = 0. (31)

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Our last remark is that under the following linear change of time variables

∂t1 7→ 2−1/6∂T1 ,

∂t3 7→ 21/2∂T3 ,

∂t3′ 7→ 21/2∂T3 + 21/23−1/2∂T3′,

∂t5 7→ 27/6∂T5

the bilinear equations (29)–(31) in the new time variables T1, T3, T3′ , T5 coincide with those ofKac and Wakimoto [28]. Essentially speaking such a change of times is simply a renormalizationof flows.

A List of generalized Schur polynomials of (g, π)-type

Take π as in [14, 10]. We list in Table 1 the first several Schur polynomials of (g, π)-type forsimple Lie algebras of low ranks.

g A1 A2 B2 B3 C2 D4

s1 t1 t1 0 0 t1 0

s212t21

12t21 + t2

12t1

12t1

12t21

12t1

s1212t21

12t21 − t2 −1

2t1 −1

2t1

12t21 −1

2t1

s316t31 + t3

16t31 + t1t2

14t21

14t21

13t31 + 2t3

14t21

s2113t31 − t3

13t31 0 0 1

3t31 − t3 0

s1316t31 + t3

16t31 − t1t2 −1

4t21 −1

4t21

13t31 + 2t3 −1

4t21

s4124t41 + t3t1

124t41+

12t2t

21+

12t22 + t4

112t31 +

12t3

112t31 +

12t3

112t41 +2t1t3

112t31 +

12t3 + t3′

s3118t41

18t41 +

12t21t2 −

12t22 − t4

112t31 − t3

112t31 − t3

14t41

112t31 − t3 −t3′

s22112t41 − t1t3

112t41 + t22

14t21

14t21

112t41 − t1t3

14t21

s21218t41

18t41 −

12t21t2 −

12t22 + t4

− 112t31 + t3 − 1

12t31 + t3

14t41

− 112t31 +

t3 + t3′

s14124t41 + t3t1

124t41−

12t2t

21+

12t22 − t4

− 112t31−

12t3 − 1

12t31−

12t3

112t41 +2t1t3

− 112t31 −

12t3 − t3′

Table 1: Simple Lie algebras and Schur polynomials of (g, π)-type

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