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First order Hamiltonian operators of differential-geometric type were introduced by Dubrovin and Novikov in 1983, and thoroughly investigated by Mokhov. In 2D, they are generated by a pair of compatible flat metrics \({g}\) and \({\tilde g}\) which satisfy a set of additional constraints coming from the skew-symmetry condition and the Jacobi identity. We demonstrate that these constraints are equivalent to the requirement that \({\tilde g}\) is a linear Killing tensor of g with zero Nijenhuis torsion. This allowed us to obtain a complete classification of n-component operators with n ≤ 4 (for n = 1, 2 this was done before). For 2D operators the Darboux theorem does not hold: the operator may not be reducible to constant coefficient form. All interesting (non-constant) examples correspond to the case when the flat pencil \({g, \tilde g}\) is not semisimple, that is, the affinor \({\tilde g g^{-1}}\) has non-trivial Jordan block structure. In the case of a direct sum of Jordan blocks with distinct eigenvalues, we obtain a complete classification of Hamiltonian operators for any number of components n, revealing a remarkable correspondence with the class of trivial Frobenius manifolds modelled on H *(CP n-1).
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Ferapontov, E.V., Lorenzoni, P. & Savoldi, A. Hamiltonian Operators of Dubrovin-Novikov Type in 2D. Lett Math Phys 105, 341–377 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11005-014-0738-6
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