Rank shift conditions and reductions of 2d-Toda theory

Abstract: This paper focuses on different reductions of 2-dimensional (2d-)Toda hierarchy. Symmetric and skew symmetric moment matrices are firstly considered, resulting in the differential relations between symmetric/skew symmetric tau functions and 2d-Toda's tau functions, respectively. Furthermore, motivated by the Cauchy two-matrix model and Bures ensemble from random matrix theory, we study the rank one shift condition in symmetric case and rank two shift condition in skew symmetric case, from which the C-Toda hierarchy and B-Toda hierarchy are found respectively, together with their special Lax matrices and integrable structures.