Examples of complete solvability of 2D classical superintegrable systems

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2015.088zbMATH Open1331.81140arXiv1505.00527MaRDI QIDQ903687FDOQ903687

Authors: Yuxuan Chen, Qiushi Li, Ernest G. Kalnins, W. jun. Miller 

Publication date: 15 January 2016

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

Abstract: Classical (maximal) superintegrable systems in $n$ dimensions are Hamiltonian systems with $2n-1$ independent constants of the motion, globally defined, the maximum number possible. They are very special because they can be solved algebraically. In this paper we show explicitly, mostly through examples of 2nd order superintegrable systems in 2 dimensions, how the trajectories can be determined in detail using rather elementary algebraic, geometric and analytic methods applied to the closed quadratic algebra of symmetries of the system. We treat a family of 2nd order degenerate systems: oscillator analogies on Darboux, nonzero constant curvature, and flat spaces, related to one another via contractions, and obeying Kepler's laws. Then we treat two 2nd order nondegenerate systems, an analogy of a caged Coulomb problem on the 2-sphere and its contraction to a Euclidean space caged Coulomb problem. In all cases the symmetry algebra structure provides detailed information about the trajectories. An interesting example is the occurrence of metronome orbits, trajectories confined to an arc rather than a loop, which are indicated clearly from the structure equations but might be overlooked using more traditional methods. We also treat the Post-Winternitz system, an example of a classical 4th order superintegrable system that cannot be solved using separation of variables. Finally we treat a superintegrable system, related to the addition theorem for elliptic functions, whose constants of the motion are only rational in the momenta, a system of special interest because its constants of the motion generate a closed polynomial algebra. This paper contains many new results but we have tried to present most of the materials in a fashion that is easily accessible to nonexperts, in order to provide entr'ee to superintegrablity theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.00527

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zbMATH Keywords

superintegrable systemsclassical trajectories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Completely integrable systems and methods of integration for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H06) Groups and algebras in quantum theory and relations with integrable systems (81R12) Relationships between algebraic curves and integrable systems (14H70)

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