Stäckel equivalence of non-degenerate superintegrable systems, and invariant quadrics (Q2023417)

This paper seeks a method that determines the Stäckel class of any given \(2\)-dimensional non-degenerate second-order superintegrable system, i.e., for manifolds of arbitrary (including non-constant) curvature. A non-degenerate second-order maximally conformally superintegrable system in dimension \(2\) naturally gives rise to a quadric with position dependent coefficients. It is shown how the system's Stäckel class can be obtained from this associated quadric. The Stäckel class of a second-order maximally conformally superintegrable system is its equivalence class under Stäckel transformations, i.e., under coupling-constant metamorphosis. This paper is organized as follows: Section 1 is an introduction to the subject. Section 2 deals with some preliminaries. The aim of Section 3 is to construct a certain variety that is invariant under Stäckel transform. It is encoded in a quadric, for a given (non-degenerate) \(2D\) second-order superintegrable system. Here the author relates this variety to the set of all flat realisations of a given Stäckel class, i.e., those non-degenerate \(2D\) second-order superintegrable systems inside the given Stäckel class that are realised on a flat geometry. Section 4 deals with further results and Section 5 with discussion and generalisations.