How one can repair non-integrable Kahan discretizations. II: A planar system with invariant curves of degree 6 (Q2059037)

The problem of integrable discretization (see [the second author, The problem of integrable discretization: Hamiltonian approach. Basel: Birkhäuser (2003; Zbl 1033.37030)]) consists in finding, for a given integrable system, a discretization which remains integrable. In this paper the authors find a novel one-parameter family of integrable quadratic Cremona maps of the plane preserving a pencil of curves of degree 6 and of genus 1. They turn out to serve as Kahan-type discretizations of a novel family of quadratic vector fields possessing a polynomial integral of degree 6 whose level curves are of genus 1, as well. These vector fields are non-homogeneous generalizations of reduced Nahm systems for magnetic monopoles with icosahedral symmetry, introduced by \textit{N. J. Hitchin} et al. [Nonlinearity 8, No. 5, 662--692 (1995; Zbl 0846.53016)]. The Kahan discretization of these nonhomogeneous systems is non-integrable. However, this drawback is repaired by introducing adjustments of order \(O(\epsilon^2)\) in the coefficients of the discretization, where \(\epsilon\) is the stepsize. This paper is organized as follows. Section 1 is an introduction to the subject. Section 2 is devoted to a homogeneous \((1,2,3)\) system and its Kahan discretization. Section 3 deals with the reduction of the considered map into roots of special QRT maps. Section 4 deals with a generalization of the QRT root map. Here the authors try to generalize the map of the previous section. All obtained mappings will be one-parameter perturbations of the corresponding objects from the previous section. Section 5 and 6 are devoted to continuous limits and conclusions. The results of the present paper confirm that the phenomenon discovered and described by \textit{M. Petrera} and \textit{R. Zander} [J. Phys. A, Math. Theor. 50, No. 20, Article ID 205203, 13 p. (2017; Zbl 1377.37086)] is not isolated, namely that in case of non-integrability of the standard Kahan discretization (when applied to an integrable system), its coefficients can be adjusted to restore integrability. For Part I, see [\textit{M. Petrera} et al., ``How one can repair non-integrable Kahan discretizations'', J. Phys. A, Math. Theor. 53, No. 37 (2020; \url{doi:10.1088/1751-8121/aba308})].