On-the-KP-Hierarchy，-$hat{W}{infty}$-Algebra，-and-Conformal-SL(2，R)U(1)-Model---The-Clas.pdfVIP

ˆ On the KP Hierarchy, W∞ Algebra, and Conformal SL(2,R)/U(1) Model — The Classical and Quantum Cases1 2 Feng Yu† and Yong-Shi Wu†† 9 9 1 t † Institute for Theoretical Physics, State University of New York c O Stony Brook, New York 11794, U.S.A. 0 3 1 †† Center for Theoretical Physics, MIT v 2 Cambridge, MA 02139, U.S.A. 6 and 1 0 1 Department of Physics, University of Utah 2 Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, U.S.A. 9 / h t - p e h ABSTRACT : v i X r We give a unified description of our recent results on the the inter-relationship be- a ˆ tween the integrable infinite KP hierarchy, nonlinear W∞ current algebra and conformal noncompact SL(2, R)/U (1) coset model both at the classical and quantum levels. In particular, we present the construction of a quantum version of the KP hierarchy by de- forming the second KP Hamiltonian structure through quantizing the SL(2, R) /U (1) k ˆ model and constructing an infinite set of commuting quantum W∞ charges (at least at k=1). 1Invited talk given by the second author at the XXI International Conference on Differential Ge- ometric Methods in Theoretical Physics, Nankai Institute of Mathematics, Tianjin, China; June 5-9, 1992; to a