ON THE BIHAMILTONIAN STRUCTURE OF THE SUPERSYMMETRIC KDV HIERARCHIES - A LIE SUPERALGEBRAIC APPROACH

We give a Lie superalgebraic interpretation of the biHamiltonian structure of known supersymmetric KdV equations. We show that the loop algebra of a Lie superalgebra carries a natural Poisson pencil, and we subsequently deduce the biHamiltonian structure of the supersymmetric KdV hierarchies by applying to loop superalgebras an appropriate reduction technique. This construction can be regarded as a superextension of the Drinfeld-Sokolov method for building a KdV-type hierarchy from a simple Lie algebra