Algebraic Aspects of Integrable Systems

Book excerpt: A collection of articles in memory of Irene Dorfman and her research in mathematical physics. Among the topics covered are: the Hamiltonian and bi-Hamiltonian nature of continuous and discrete integrable equations; the t-function construction; the r-matrix formulation of integrable systems; pseudo-differential operators and modular forms; master symmetries and the Bocher theorem; asymptotic integrability; the integrability of the equations of associativity; invariance under Laplace-darboux transformations; trace formulae of the Dirac and Schrodinger periodic operators; and certain canonical 1-forms.