The integrable heavenly type equations and their Lie-algebraic structure

Abstract

There are investigated the Lie algebraic structure and integrability properties of a very interesting class of nonlinear dynamical systems called the heavenly equations, which were initiated by Plebański and later analyzed in a series of articles. Based on the AKS-algebraic and related R-structure schemes there are studied orbits of the corresponding co-adjoint actions, deeply related with the classical Lie-Poisson type structures on them. There is successively demonstrated that their compatibility condition proves to coincide exactly with the corresponding heavenly equation under regard. It is stated that all the heavenly equations allow such an origin and can be equivalently represented as a Lax type compatibility condition for specially built loop vector fields on the torus. The infinite hierarchy of conservations laws, related with the heavenly equations is discussed, its analytical structure, connected with the Casimir invariants is mentioned. In addition, the typical examples of the heavenly equations, demonstrating in details their integrability within the scheme devised in the work, are presented. The Lagrangian representation of the heavenly equations following from their Hamiltonicity with respect to both related commuting to each other evolution flows, as well as their associated bi-Hamiltonian structure are also discussed. The relationship of the heavenly type dynamical ssytems with the classical Lagrange-d'Alambert principle is demonstrated.