Integrability by quadratures of Hamiltonian 2<i>n</i>-dimensional systems with<i>n</i>known skew-orthogonal solutions (Q4244592)

This brief note concerns the following result: if \(n\) linearly independent solutions of a \(2n\)-dimensional Hamiltonian system are known, all other solutions can be obtained by means of quadratures. The author writes: ``Although this fact seems very natural, and its proof is elementary, and is probably used implicitly in works connected with the theory of perturbation of Hamiltonian systems and geometric quantization, nevertheless these formulae were known neither to me nor to many specialists in the field of Hamiltonian systems.'' As a matter of fact, the author's result was established by \textit{F. S. Rofe-Beketov} in [Mat. Fiz. Anal. Geom. 1, No. 1, 139-148 (1994; Zbl 0835.34039)] (see, in particular, theorem 4) and applied by him to Hamiltonian systems that admit \(n\) linearly independent almost periodic solutions. Particularly transparent is, of course, the case \(n=1\), which had been treated earlier by \textit{F. S. Rofe-Beketov} in [Constructive theory of functions, Proc. Int. Conf., Varna/Bulg. 1984, 757-766 (1984; Zbl 0595.47009)] and in [Sov. Phys., Dokl. 29, 391-393 (1984; Zbl 0597.34016); translation from Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR 276, 356-359 (1984)]. The corresponding formula generalises d'Alembert's well-known formula which provides a solution that is linearly independent of a nowhere vanishing solution.