The pentagram map: a discrete integrable system

DOI10.1007/S00220-010-1075-YMaRDI QIDQ5962389zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Valentin Ovsienko, Richard Evan Schwartz, S. Tabachnikov

Publication date 22 September 2010

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.5605

zbMATH Keywords

Boussinesq equationPoisson structuremonodromyCasimir functionprojective transformationpentagram mapcompletely integrable systemtwisted polygonuniversally convex polygon

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests (37J35) Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10) General theory of linear incidence geometry and projective geometries (51A05) Convex sets in (2) dimensions (including convex curves) (52A10) Lattice dynamics; integrable lattice equations (37K60)

Abstract: The pentagram map is a projectively natural iteration defined on polygons, and also on objects we call twisted polygons (a twisted polygon is a map from Z into the projective plane that is periodic modulo a projective transformation). 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 universally convex, we translate the integrability into a statement about the quasi-periodic motion for the dynamics of the pentagram map. We also explain how the pentagram map, in the continuous limit, corresponds to the classical Boussinesq equation. The Poisson structure we attach to the pentagram map is a discrete version of the first Poisson structure associated with the Boussinesq equation.

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