Noncommutative integrability, moment map and geodesic flows

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Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to discuss the relationship between commutative and non-commutative integrability of Hamiltonian systems and to construct new examples of integrable geodesic flows on Riemannian manifolds. In particular, we prove that the geodesic flow of the bi-invariant metric on any bi-quotient of a compact Lie group is integrable in non-commutative sense by means of polynomial integrals, and therefore, in classical commutative sense by means of Cinfty--smooth integrals.


This paper brings interesting new insights into the nature of so-called noncommutative integrability of Hamiltonian systems. After a brief sketch of the history of the subject and having recalled what noncommutative integrability, as introduced by Mishchenko and Fomenko, means, the authors directly come to their main result. They prove that, under mild assumptions, noncommutative integrability in fact always implies standard integrability (through commuting integrals in the category of smooth functions). In Section 2, in the context of the action of a Lie group on a connected symplectic manifold and the associated momentum map, a generalization is proved of a result of Guillemin and Sternberg on integrability of collective motion. Another interesting application is the proof of complete integrability of geodesic flows on Riemannian manifolds all of whose geodesics are closed. In the final section, it is shown that geodesic flows of bi-invariant metrics on so-called bi-quotients of compact Lie groups are always integrable.




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