Superintegrable systems on moduli spaces of flat connections (Q2050064)

Let \(G\) be a connected simple linear algebraic group over \(\mathbb{C}\). The aim of this paper is to construct superintegrable Hamiltonian systems on moduli spaces of flat \(G\)-connections over any oriented surface with nonempty boundary. Hamiltonians of such systems are traces of holonomies along non-intersecting non-self-intersecting curves. The construction naturally works in the same way for various real forms of \(G\), for example for compact simple Lie groups or for split real forms. The moduli space is a Poisson variety with Atiyah-Bott Poisson structure. Among particular cases of such systems are spin generalizations of Ruijsenaars-Schneider models. This paper is organized as follows. In Section 1 the authors recall the definition of superintegrable (degenerately integrable) systems. There they also define the notion of affine superintegrable systems in the algebro-geometrical setting. Section 2 is an overview of basic notions about moduli spaces of flat connections on a surface. In this section they recall the definition of graph functions and the description of Poisson brackets between two such functions. In Section 3 they describe the main result, the construction of a family of Hamiltonian systems defined by a choice of non-intersecting, non-self-intersecting cycles and prove their superintegrability. At the end of this section they introduce the notion of a partial order on such systems. In Section 4 they explain how solutions to equations of motion of these superintegrable systems can be solved using the projection method. Section 5 has some genus one examples. In the conclusion the authors define a system on the space of chord diagrams which is conjectured to be superintegrable. They discuss the case of non-generic conjugation orbits and some further directions.