Hyper-Hamiltonian dynamics (Q4465668)

A hyper-Kähler manifold is defined as a Riemannian manifold \(M\) endowed with orthogonal transformations of the tangent bundle \(I, J, K\) which are parallel and satisfy the relations \[ I^ 2=J^ 2=K^ 2=-\text{id},\quad IJ=K,\quad JK=I,\quad KI=J. \] From the manifold \(M\), three different complex manifolds \((M,I), (M,J)\) and \((M,K)\) are obtained. Frequently these complex structures are seen as the three independent imaginary units of the quaternion field. On the other hand, Hamiltonian dynamics has usually been studied via symplectic structures on the tangent bundle \(TM\). In the article under review the authors provide a generalization of Hamiltonian mechanics based on a hyper-Kähler structure described in symplectic terms, which they call `hypersymplectic' structure. The authors develop a theory of hyper-Kähler hyper-Hamiltonian mechanics in this setting and study integral invariants who play a similar important role as the Poincaré invariants in the canonical Hamiltonian manifolds. They also apply it to examples in \(\mathbb R^4\) and \(\mathbb R^{4n}\) with the standard Euclidean metric. This article includes a section in which the results are compared with those in the traditional theory. Other articles along this line are: \textit{M. Atiyah}, Hyper-Kähler manifolds. Complex geometry and analysis, Proc. Int. Symp. in Honour of E. Vesentini, Pisa/Italy 1988, Lect. Notes Math. 1422, 1--13 (1990; Zbl 0699.53068); \textit{P. Rosenau}, Hamiltonian dynamics of dense chains and lattices: or how to correct the continuum, Phys. Lett., A 311, No. 1, 39--52 (2003; Zbl 1076.70505); \textit{O. Ikawa}, Hamiltonian dynamics of a charged particle, Hokkaido Math. J. 32, No. 3, 661--671 (2003; Zbl 1044.37042).