Twisted Affine Integrable Hierarchies and Soliton Solutions

A systematic construction of a class of integrable hierarchy is discussed in terms of the twisted affine A 2 r ( 2 ) Lie algebra. The zero curvature representation of the time evolution equations is shown to be classified according to its algebraic structure and according to its vacuum solutions. It is shown that a class of models admit both zero and constant (non-zero) vacuum solutions. Another consists essentially of integral non-local equations and can be classified into two sub-classes, one admitting only zero vacuum and another of constant strictly non-zero vacuum solutions. The two-dimensional gauge potentials in the vacuum play a crucial ingredient and are shown to be expanded in powers of the vacuum parameter v 0 . Soliton solutions are constructed from vertex operators, which for the non-zero vacuum solutions correspond to deformations characterized by v 0 .