Two-valued groups, Kummer varieties, and integrable billiards (Q1617457)

This paper concerns a study of two-valued groups associated with hyperelliptic Jacobians and their relation to integrable systems. This study is motivated by examples in relation between groups with two algebraic values related to elliptic curves and integrable systems such as elliptic billiards and Kowalewski rigid body motion. The paper is devoted to the case of genus two, to the investigation of algebraic two valued group structures on Kummer varieties. One of these approaches is based on the theory of \(s\)-functions and it enables to study the dependence of parameters of the curves including rational limits. The authors use a notion of \(n\)-groupoid as natural multivalued analogue of the notion of topological groupoid. The second approach is geometric and it is based on a geometric approach to addition laws on hyperelliptic Jacobians and on a recent notion of billiard algebra. The third approach is based on the realization of the Kummer variety in the framework of moduli of semi-stable bundles, after Narasimhan and Ramanan.