Contact flows and integrable systems (Q478617)

The paper considers the restriction of integrable (in a non-commutative sense) Hamiltonian systems to hypersurfaces of contact type. In particular, if \(M=H^{-1}(h)\) is a contact type hypersurface then the Reeb flow on \(M\) is contact completely integrable (in a non-commutative sense). This is a special case of a more general statement on isoenergetic integrability, where the system does not need to be integrable on the whole phase space, but the Poisson brackets of the integrals vanish on a fixed isoenergetic hypersurface \(M\) of contact type. Then the paper considers contact flows with constraints and derives the contact version of Dirac's construction for constrained Hamiltonian systems. This construction is applied to the study of the Reeb flow on Brieskorn manifolds.