A super-integrable two-dimensional nonlinear oscillator with an exactly solvable quantum analog (Q2473426)

If a Hamiltonian system on a \(2n\)-dimensional symplectic manifold has \(n\) functionally independent constants of the motion \(f+i\) in involution (including the Hamiltonian itself) so that the Poisson brackets \(\{f_i,f_j\}= 0\) for all \(i,j= 1,2,\dots, n\) and \(df_1\wedge df_2\wedge\cdots\wedge df_n\neq 0\), the system is called integrable. If there exists a set of \(m> n\) functionally independent constants of the motion -- if there are more independent first integrals than degress of freedom -- then the system is called super-integrable. The additonal first integrals induce an additional degree of regularity in the system since trajectories are restricted to submanifolds of dimension less than \(n\). This paper is a survey of some recent integrability and super-integrability of certain two-dimensional systems related to the harmonic oscillator. It focuses primarily on modifications (depending on a parameter \(\lambda\)) of super-integrable systems that do not alter the super-integrability structure. The authors consider a number of explicit one- and two-dimensional systems. For some of these they examine both a classical system and its quantum counterpart. Of particular interest to them are variations of the harmonic oscillator and the Smorodinsky-Winternitz system. They show that these systems of interest can be viewed as nonlinear deformations of linear systems or else as a model of an oscillator on spaces of constant curvature.