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Federico Zullo

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arXiv2011

Backlund transformations for the elliptic Gaudin model and a Clebsch system

A two-parameters family of Backlund transformations for the classical elliptic Gaudin model is constructed. The maps are explicit, symplectic, preserve the same integrals as for the continuous flows and are a time discretization of each of these flows. The transformations can map real variables into real variables, sending physical solutions of the equations of motion into physical solutions. The starting point of the analysis is the integrability structure of the model. It is shown how the analogue transformations for the rational and trigonometric Gaudin model are a limiting case of this one. An application to a particular case of the Clebsch system is given.

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arXiv2011

Bäcklund Transformations for the Kirchhoff Top

We construct Bäcklund transformations (BTs) for the Kirchhoff top by taking advantage of the common algebraic Poisson structure between this system and the $sl(2)$ trigonometric Gaudin model. Our BTs are integrable maps providing an exact time-discretization of the system, inasmuch as they preserve both its Poisson structure and its invariants. Moreover, in some special cases we are able to show that these maps can be explicitly integrated in terms of the initial conditions and of the "iteration time" $n$. Encouraged by these partial results we make the conjecture that the maps are interpolated by a specific one-parameter family of hamiltonian flows, and present the corresponding solution. We enclose a few pictures where the orbits of the continuous and of the discrete flow are depicted.

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arXiv2010

Bäcklund Transformations for the Trigonometric Gaudin Magnet

We construct a Backlund transformation for the trigonometric classical Gaudin magnet starting from the Lax representation of the model. The Darboux dressing matrix obtained depends just on one set of variables because of the so-called spectrality property introduced by E. Sklyanin and V. Kuznetsov. In the end we mention some possibly interesting open problems.

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arXiv2007

Continuous and Discrete (Classical) Heisenberg Spin Chain Revised

Most of the work done in the past on the integrability structure of the Classical Heisenberg Spin Chain (CHSC) has been devoted to studying the $su(2)$ case, both at the continuous and at the discrete level. In this paper we address the problem of constructing integrable generalized ''Spin Chains'' models, where the relevant field variable is represented by a $N\times N$ matrix whose eigenvalues are the $N^{th}$ roots of unity. To the best of our knowledge, such an extension has never been systematically pursued. In this paper, at first we obtain the continuous $N\times N$ generalization of the CHSC through the reduction technique for Poisson-Nijenhuis manifolds, and exhibit some explicit, and hopefully interesting, examples for $3\times 3$ and $4\times 4$ matrices; then, we discuss the much more difficult discrete case, where a few partial new results are derived and a conjecture is made for the general case.

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