The variety of integrable Killing tensors on the 3-sphere

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2014.080zbMATH Open1296.53078arXiv1205.6227MaRDI QIDQ401274FDOQ401274

Authors: Konrad Schöbel 

Publication date: 26 August 2014

Published in: SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Integrable Killing tensors are used to classify orthogonal coordinates in which the classical Hamilton-Jacobi equation can be solved by a separation of variables. We completely solve the Nijenhuis integrability conditions for Killing tensors on the sphere $S^3$ and give a set of isometry invariants for the integrability of a Killing tensor. We describe explicitly the space of solutions as well as its quotient under isometries as projective varieties and interpret their algebro-geometric properties in terms of Killing tensors. Furthermore, we identify all St"ackel systems in these varieties. This allows us to recover the known list of separation coordinates on $S^3$ in a simple and purely algebraic way. In particular, we prove that their moduli space is homeomorphic to the associahedron $K_4$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.6227

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zbMATH Keywords

Killing tensorsseparation of variablesintegrabilityassociahedronalgebraic curvature tensorsStäckel systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Determinantal varieties (14M12) Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests (37J35) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80)

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