Global action-angle variables for non-commutative integrable systems (Q1625189)

The aim of this paper is to extend to Poisson manifolds the results on the existence of global action-angle variables for commutative and non-commutative Liouville integrable systems on symplectic manifolds. The authors analyze the obstructions to the existence of global action-angle variables for regular non-commutative integrable systems (regular NCI systems) on Poisson manifolds. The notion of a regular NCI system is reformulated geometrically as an \(r\)-dimensional foliation whose tangent bundle is spanned by Hamiltonian vector fields associated to the local first integrals of the foliations (i.e., locally defined functions that are constant along the leaves). Several new concepts as the action bundle, the action lattice bundle of NCI systems and the action, angle and transverse foliations are introduced and exploited in the paper. The obstructions, often of cohomological nature, to the existence of the mentioned foliations are also presented. Many interesting examples are provided. Some of them come from classical mechanics while other examples are artificially constructed to illustrate the non-triviality of the obstructions.