Gibbons-Tsarev type systems and Eventual identities

Alessandro Arsie , Paolo Lorenzoni , Sara Perletti , Karoline van Gemst

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Non-diagonalisable reductions of the dKP equation associated with regular non-semisimple F-manifolds cannot exist, proven via a generalized Gibbons-Tsarev system defined by eventual identities.

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F-manifolds are algebraic structures used in mathematical physics to organize families of integrable equations. The dKP equation is a nonlinear wave equation without dispersion terms. The authors derive a generalized version of the Gibbons-Tsarev system that works when the F-manifold is regular but not semisimple. They show that solutions to this system come from special vector fields called eventual identities. Using these, they construct reductions of another integrable system, Pavlov's hydrodynamic chain, and prove these reductions exist no matter what Jordan block form the multiplication operator takes.

Core claim

We show that non-diagonalisable reductions of the dKP equation associated with regular non-semisimple F-manifolds cannot exist.

Load-bearing premise

The underlying F-manifold is regular and non-semisimple, with the reductions defined via the standard association to the multiplication operator and eventual identities.

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We show that non-diagonalisable reductions of the dKP equation associated with regular non-semisimple $F$-manifolds cannot exist. The proof is based on the derivation and study of a generalised Gibbons--Tsarev system (gGT system) in the non-semisimple/non-diagonalisable setting. Remarkably, a class of solutions of the gGT system is defined by eventual identities of the underlying regular $F$-manifold structure. Furthermore, we use these vector fields to construct integrable reductions of Pavlov's hydrodynamic chain. In this case, the corresponding solutions are defined for any choice of Jordan block structure of the operator of multiplication by an eventual identity.

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Derivation proceeds via explicit compatibility computations with no reduction to inputs

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The paper derives the generalized Gibbons-Tsarev system directly from the multiplication operator on the regular non-semisimple F-manifold and the eventual identities, then verifies the non-existence claim by explicit computation of the resulting PDE compatibility conditions. No step equates a derived quantity to a fitted parameter or prior self-citation by construction; the central non-existence result for dKP reductions follows from the algebraic structure without circular renaming or imported uniqueness theorems. The argument remains self-contained against the stated F-manifold axioms.

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The central claim rests on standard properties of regular F-manifolds and the definition of eventual identities from prior literature in the field; no free parameters or new invented entities are introduced in the abstract.

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domain assumption Standard algebraic properties of regular F-manifolds
Invoked to define the setting for the dKP reductions and the gGT system.
domain assumption Existence and properties of eventual identities
Used to construct solutions of the gGT system and reductions of the hydrodynamic chain.

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We show that non-diagonalisable reductions of the dKP equation associated with regular non-semisimple F-manifolds cannot exist... solutions of the gGT system is defined by eventual identities

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