Lax-type isospectral deformations on nilmanifolds (Q1916021)

This paper considers the isospectral deformations on nilmanifolds from the viewpoint of classical and quantum dynamical systems. A one-parameter family \(g(t)\) \((0 \leq t \leq T)\) of Riemannian metrics on a compact manifold is called an isospectral deformation of a metric \(g(0)\) if the Laplace-Beltrami operators associated to the metrics \(g(t)\) have the same spectra. Examples of non-trivial isospectral deformations were constructed on solvmanifolds for the first time by C. S. Gordon and E. Wilson on the basis of Kirillov theory. In the present paper the author shows for certain isospectral deformations that the associated Hamiltonian systems of geodesic flows are decomposed into a collection of reduced systems which are left invariant as Hamiltonian systems under the deformations. This fact is formulated by the ``classical Lax equations''. Next, by using a quantization procedure, the author attempts to obtain Lax equations for the ``reduced Laplacians'' from the ``classical Lax equations''. As a result, he shows that certain isospectral deformations by Gordon-Wilson are represented by the Lax equations.