We introduce a single tau function that represents the C-type Kadomtsev–Petviashvili (CKP) hierarchy in a generalized Hirota ‘bilinear’ equation. The actions on the tau function by additional symmetries for the hierarchy are also calculated, which involve strictly more than a central extension of the -algebra. As an application, for Drinfeld–Sokolov hierarchies associated to affine Kac–Moody algebras of type C, we obtain a formula to compute the obstacles in linearizing their Virasoro symmetries and hence prove the Virasoro symmetries to be nonlinearizable when acting on the tau function.
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