Dispersionless Toda hierarchy and two-dimensional string theory |
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Authors: | Kanehisa Takasaki |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Fundamental Sciences, Faculty of Integrated Human Studies, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Nihonmatsu-cho, 606 Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan |
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Abstract: | The dispersionless Toda hierarchy turns out to lie in the heart of a recently proposed Landau-Ginzburg formulation of two-dimensional string theory at self-dual compactification radius. The dynamics of massless tachyons with discrete momenta is shown to be encoded into the structure of a special solution of this integrable hierarchy. This solution is obtained by solving a Riemann-Hilbert problem. Equivalence to the tachyon dynamics is proven by deriving recursion relations of tachyon correlation functions in the machinery of the dispersionless Toda hierarchy. Fundamental ingredients of the Landau-Ginzburg formulation, such as Landau-Ginzburg potentials and tachyon Landau-Ginzburg fields, are translated into the language of the Lax formalism. Furthermore, a wedge algebra is pointed out to exist behind the Riemann-Hilbert problem, and speculations on its possible role as generators of extra states and fields are presented. |
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