Canonical-form conjecture for tau-symmetric deformations of the Riemann hierarchy

Let a tau-symmetric integrable Hamiltonian deformation of the Riemann hierarchy be considered modulo normal Miura-type transformations. Write wk=xkww_k=\partial_x^k w. The canonical deformation is required to have

wtq=x(δHqδw(x)),q0,\frac{\partial w}{\partial t^q}=\frac{\partial}{\partial x}\left(\frac{\delta H_q}{\delta w(x)}\right),\qquad q\geq 0,

and its Hamiltonian density h1h_1 has the displayed standard form through order ϵ12\epsilon^{12}, with coefficients a0,ai,bia_0,a_i,b_i. Starting from ϵ4\epsilon^4, the displayed terms are selected so that the factor with highest derivative in each monomial is nonlinear and no term contains a wxw_x factor; if a0=0a_0=0, all aj,bja_j,b_j vanish, while if a00a_0\ne0, the coefficients bjb_j are uniquely determined by a0,a1,a2,a_0,a_1,a_2,\dots. Canonical-form conjecture. Any tau-symmetric integrable Hamiltonian deformation of the Riemann hierarchy is equivalent, under a normal Miura-type transformation, to this canonical tau-symmetric integrable deformation, which is uniquely determined by the stated standard form of h1h_1. The source presents this as a conjecture and provides no general proof; only finite-order equivalences are reported elsewhere in the conclusion.

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Boris Dubrovin, Si-Qi Liu, Di Yang and Youjin Zhang, “Hodge integrals and tau-symmetric integrable hierarchies of Hamiltonian evolutionary PDEs”, arXiv:1409.4616 (2014).

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