Supersymmetric Drinfeld-Sokolov reduction

The Drinfeld-Sokolov construction of integrable hierarchies, as well as its generalizations, may be extended to the case of loop superalgebras. A sufficient condition on the algebraic data for the resulting hierarchy to be invariant under supersymmetry transformation is given. The method used is a construction of the hierarchies in superspace, where supersymmetry is manifest. Several examples are discussed.