On Hamiltonian flows whose orbits are straight lines

DOI10.3934/DCDS.2014.34.2091MaRDI QIDQ379866zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hans Koch, H. E. Lomelí

Publication date 11 November 2013

Published in Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.3377

zbMATH Keywords

HamiltonianIwasawa decompositionjolt factorizationpolynomial mapsymplectic mapsymplectic matrix

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Birational automorphisms, Cremona group and generalizations (14E07) Real polynomials: analytic properties, etc. (26C05) Discretization methods and integrators (symplectic, variational, geometric, etc.) for dynamical systems (37M15) Differentiable maps on manifolds (58C25)

Abstract: We consider real analytic Hamiltonians whose flow depends linearly on time. Trivial examples are Hamiltonians $H(q,p)$ that do not depend on the coordinate $q$. By a theorem of Moser, every polynomial Hamiltonian of degree 3 reduces to such a $q$-independent Hamiltonian via a linear symplectic change of variables. We show that such a reduction is impossible, in general, for polynomials of degree 4 or higher. But we give a condition that implies linear-symplectic conjugacy to another simple class of Hamiltonians. The condition is shown to hold for all nondegenerate Hamiltonians that are homogeneous of degree 4.

Review text

The authors consider the so-called affine integrable Hamiltonians which are analytic -- described by homogeneous polynomials. They give necessary and sufficient conditions for such Hamiltonians to be shear Hamiltonians. For example, every affine integrable polynomial Hamiltonian that is homogeneous of degree 3 is shear but also some other types of conditions are also given. Commutators and quadratic functions are discussed within the same framework.

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