Isospectral deformation of the reduced quasi-classical self-dual Yang–Mills equation

Abstract

We derive a new four-dimensional partial differential equation with the isospectral Lax representation by shrinking the symmetry algebra of the reduced quasi-classical self-dual Yang–Mills equation and applying the technique of twisted extensions to the obtained Lie algebra. Then we find a recursion operator for symmetries of the new equation and construct a Bäcklund transformation between this equation and the four-dimensional Martínez Alonso–Shabat equation. Finally, we construct extensions of the integrable hierarchies associated to the hyper-CR equation for Einstein–Weyl structures, the reduced quasi-classical self-dual Yang–Mills equation, the four-dimensional universal hierarchy equation, and the four-dimensional Martínez Alonso–Shabat equation.