Global Results on the Classification of Two-Component Integrable Evolutionary Systems

Abstract

We derive necessary and sufficient integrability conditions for two-component polynomial evolutionary systems of odd order in $(1+1)$ dimensions. Integrable systems are members of infinite hierarchies of commuting symmetries, which are characterised by their spectral invariants. We prove that there are precisely $24$ possible spectral classes of integrable hierarchies. As an application, we obtain a complete classification of integrable homogeneous hierarchies whose lowest-order equations are of order 3 and 5. The resulting classification naturally splits into two classes. The C--integrable systems are reduced, by means of differential substitutions, to linear--triangular form, while the S--integrable systems are related, through linear changes of variables and differential substitutions, to canonical Drinfeld--Sokolov KdV-type systems associated with affine Lie algebras of rank two.