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Lie algebras and equations of Korteweg-de Vries type

Vladimir Drinfeld, +1 more
- 01 Jul 1985 - 
- Vol. 30, Iss: 2, pp 1975-2036
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A survey of the theory of Kats-Moody algebras is given in this paper, which contains a description of the connection between the infinite-dimensional Lie algebra of Kats and systems of differential equations generalizing the Korteweg-de Vries and sine-Gordon equations and integrable by the inverse scattering problem.
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The survey contains a description of the connection between the infinite-dimensional Lie algebras of Kats-Moody and systems of differential equations generalizing the Korteweg-de Vries and sine-Gordon equations and integrable by the method of the inverse scattering problem. A survey of the theory of Kats-Moody algebras is also given.

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Theory of Ordinary Differential Equations

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