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Use the canonical representatives of functionals of $u$: $P_f=f{\partial }^{-1}$, $P_g=g{\partial }^{-1}$. The formal pseudodifferential composition rule givesand the reversed product has $f,g$ exchanged. ThereforeMultiplying by $L={\partial }^2+u$ on the left, only the leading displayed commutator term can produce a residue. Differentiation of its coefficient produces powers at most ${\partial }^{-2}$, and multiplication by $u$ produces powers at most ${\partial }^{-3}$. Thusand, with the trace convention of part (i),There is no $u$ dependence in this bracket.

Moreover $\mathrm{res}(P_{f}L)=fu$, so $l_{P_f}=\int fudx$ and $\delta l_{P_f}/\delta u=f$. If $K(x,y)=\{u(x),u(y)\}$ is the distributional field bracket, it is characterized bySince $\int {\partial }_x\delta (x-y)g(y)dy=g^{\prime }(x)$, the answer isThe Dirac delta is periodic in the periodic setting, or the ordinary Dirac delta on the real line with admissible test functions. This is the first Hamiltonian structure of the KdV equation, with Poisson operator $-2{\partial }_x$. Its skewness follows by integration by parts; its coefficients are constant, so the functional Jacobi identity has no coefficient-variation terms.

A qualification is needed if the displayed trace formula is interpreted as a bracket on the reduced space for arbitrary operator representatives. Multiplication by a function $h$ gives $l_{m_h}({\partial }^2+u)=0$, yet direct expansion givesWith $h=g=\cos x$ on a period $[0,2\pi ]$, the latter is $\pi$. Hence the formula does not descend through every possible representative of a functional on this reduced affine space. The requested $f{\partial }^{-1},g{\partial }^{-1}$ representatives, used consistently for variational gradients, give the well-defined constant field bracket just computed; a general restriction from the ambient operator algebra needs an appropriate reduction.