Quasiperiodic motion for the pentagram map

DOI10.3934/ERA.2009.16.1zbMATH Open1163.37019arXiv0901.1585OpenAlexW2963991907WikidataQ61632435 ScholiaQ61632435MaRDI QIDQ1010968FDOQ1010968

Authors: Valentin Ovsienko, Richard Evan Schwartz, S. Tabachnikov 

Publication date: 7 April 2009

Published in: Electronic Research Announcements in Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The pentagram map is a projectively natural iteration defined on polygons, and also on a generalized notion of a polygon which we call {it twisted polygons}. In this note we describe our recent work on the pentagram map, in which we find a Poisson structure on the space of twisted polygons and show that the pentagram map relative to this Poisson structure is completely integrable in the sense of Arnold-Liouville. For certain families of twisted polygons, such as those we call {it universally convex}, we translate the integrability into a statement about the quasi-periodic notion of the pentagram-map orbits. We also explain how the continuous limit of the Pentagram map is the classical Boissinesq equation, a completely integrable PDE.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.1585

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zbMATH Keywords

projective geometryintegrabilityPoisson structuremonodromypentagram mapquasi-periodic motionsBoussinesque equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests (37J35) Linear incidence geometry (51A99)

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