On generalizations of the pentagram map: discretizations of AGD flows (Q1956213)

The author explores possible generalizations of the pentagram map to higher-dimensional projective spaces. Some discretizations of AGD flows have been studied in [\textit{S. B. Lobb} and \textit{F. W. Nijhoff}, J. Phys. A, Math. Theor. 43, No. 7, Article ID 072003, 11 p. (2010; Zbl 1184.37056)]. In this article the author investigates maps defined as intersections of different types of subspace in \(\mathbb{RP}^m\), whose continuous limit is projective realizations of AGD flows. The connection between projective geometry and AGD-flows and between the AGD Hamiltonian functional and the projective realization of the AGD flow is investigated. The author explores the pentagram map and other maps with the same continuous limit as simple cases for a general approach. Some of the possible generalizations are given. The results of this article are obtained in the assumption that the projective realization of the AGD Hamiltonian flow can be discretized using the intersection of one \((k -1)\)-dimensional subspace and \(k -1\) \((m-1)\)-dimensional subspaces in \(\mathbb{RP}^m\). This allows you to reformulate the problem of finding the discretizations as solving a system of Diophantine equations whose solutions determine the choices of vertices needed to define the subspaces. These systems are increasingly difficult to solve as the dimension goes up, hence it is not clear how to solve the general case with this algebraic approach.