Geometry of the Kahan discretizations of planar quadratic Hamiltonian systems. II: Systems with a linear Poisson tensor

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Abstract: Kahan discretization is applicable to any quadratic vector field and produces a birational map which approximates the shift along the phase flow. For a planar quadratic Hamiltonian vector field with a linear Poisson tensor and with a quadratic Hamilton function, this map is known to be integrable and to preserve a pencil of conics. In the paper `Three classes of quadratic vector fields for which the Kahan discretization is the root of a generalised Manin transformation' by P. van der Kamp et al., it was shown that the Kahan discretization can be represented as a composition of two involutions on the pencil of conics. In the present note, which can be considered as a comment to that paper, we show that this result can be reversed. For a linear form ell(x,y), let B1,B2 be any two distinct points on the line ell(x,y)=c, and let B3,B4 be any two distinct points on the line ell(x,y)=c. Set B0=frac12(B1+B3) and B5=frac12(B2+B4); these points lie on the line ell(x,y)=0. Finally, let Binfty be the point at infinity on this line. Let mathfrakE be the pencil of conics with the base points B1,B2,B3,B4. Then the composition of the Binfty-switch and of the B0-switch on the pencil mathfrakE is the Kahan discretization of a Hamiltonian vector field with a quadratic Hamilton function H(x,y). This birational map Phif:mathbbCP2dashrightarrowmathbbCP2 has three singular points B0,B2,B4, while the inverse map Phif1 has three singular points B1,B3,B5.









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