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P. Winternitz

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arXiv1998

Classical Trajectories for two Ring-Shaped Potentials

This paper deals with the classical trajectories for two super-integrable systems: a system known in quantum chemistry as the Hartmann system and a system of potential use in quantum chemistry and nuclear physics. Both systems correspond to ring-shaped potentials. They admit two maximally super-integrable systems as limiting cases, viz, the isotropic harmonic oscillator system and the Coulomb-Kepler system in three dimensions. The planarity of the trajectories is studied in a systematic way. In general, the trajectories are quasi-periodic rather than periodic. A constraint condition allows to pass from quasi-periodic motions to periodic ones. When written in a quantum mechanical context, this constraint condition leads to new accidental degeneracies for the two systems studied.

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arXiv1997

$P_\infty$ algebra of KP, free fermions and 2-cocycle in the Lie algebra of pseudodifferential operators

The symmetry algebra $P_\infty = W_\infty \oplus H \oplus I_\infty$ of integrable systems is defined. As an example the classical Sophus Lie point symmetries of all higher KP equations are obtained. It is shown that one (``positive'') half of the point symmetries belongs to the $W_\infty$ symmetries while the other (``negative'') part belongs to the $I_\infty$ ones. The corresponing action on the tau-function is obtained for the positive part of the symmetries. The negative part can not be obtained from the free fermion algebra. A new embedding of the Virasoro algebra into $gl(\infty )$n describes conformal transformations of the KP time variables. A free fermion algebra cocycle is described as a PDO Lie algebra cocycle.

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arXiv1996

Solutions of (2+1)-dimensional spin systems

We use the methods of group theory to reduce the equations of motion of two spin systems in (2+1) dimensions to sets of coupled ordinary differential equations. We present solutions of some classes of these sets and discuss their physical significance.

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arXiv1995

On the solutions of the $CP^{1}$ model in $(2+1)$ dimensions

We use the methods of group theory to reduce the equations of motion of the $CP^{1}$ model in (2+1) dimensions to sets of two coupled ordinary differential equations. We decouple and solve many of these equations in terms of elementary functions, elliptic functions and Painlev{é} transcendents. Some of the reduced equations do not have the Painlev{é} property thus indicating that the model is not integrable, while it still posesses many properties of integrable systems (such as stable ``numerical'' solitons).

hep-th↗
arXiv1994

The Conformal Group SU(2,2) and Integrable Systems on a Lorentzian Hyperboloid

Eleven different types of "maximally superintegrable" Hamiltonian systems on the real hyperboloid $(s^0)^2-(s^1)^2+(s^2)^2-(s^3)^2=1$ are obtained. All of them correspond to a free Hamiltonian system on the homogeneous space $SU(2,2)/U(2,1)$, but to reductions by different maximal abelian subgroups of $SU(2,2)$. Each of the obtained systems allows 5 functionally independent integrals of motion, from which it is possible to form two or more triplets in involution (each of them includes the hamiltonian). The corresponding classical and quantum equations of motion can be solved by separation of variables on the $O(2,2)$ space.

hep-th↗
arXiv1994

Hyperspherical Harmonics, Separation of Variables and the Bethe Ansatz

The relation between solutions to Helmholtz's equation on the sphere $S^{n-1}$ and the $[{\gr sl}(2)]^n$ Gaudin spin chain is clarified. The joint eigenfuctions of the Laplacian and a complete set of commuting second order operators suggested by the $R$--matrix approach to integrable systems, based on the loop algebra $\wt{sl}(2)_R$, are found in terms of homogeneous polynomials in the ambient space. The relation of this method of determining a basis of harmonic functions on $S^{n-1}$ to the Bethe ansatz approach to integrable systems is explained.

hep-th↗
arXiv1994

Spherical Functions for the Quantum Group su_q(2)

The representation theory of the quantum group su$_q(2)$ is used to introduce $q$-analogues of the Wigner rotation matrices, spherical functions, and Legendre polynomials. The method amounts to an extension of variable separation from Laplace equations to certain differential-dilation equations.

hep-th↗
arXiv1994

Symmetries of the Kadomstev-Petviashvili Hierarchy

The relation between the $\widehat{\Sl}(\infty)$ algebra of flows commuting with the KP hierarchy and the Kac-Moody-Virasoro Lie point symmetries of individual equations is established. This is used to calculate the point symmetries for all equations in the hierarchy.

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arXiv1993

Classical and Quantum Integrable Systems in $\wt{\gr{gl}}(2)^{+*}$ and Separation of Variables

Classical integrable Hamiltonian systems generated by elements of the Poisson commuting ring of spectral invariants on rational coadjoint orbits of the loop algebra $\wt{\gr{gl}}^{+*}(2,{\bf R})$ are integrated by separation of variables in the Hamilton-Jacobi equation in hyperellipsoidal coordinates. The canonically quantized systems are then shown to also be completely integrable and separable within the same coordinates. Pairs of second class constraints defining reduced phase spaces are implemented in the quantized systems by choosing one constraint as an invariant, and interpreting the other as determining a quotient (i.e., by treating one as a first class constraint and the other as a gauge condition). Completely integrable, separable systems on spheres and ellipsoids result, but those on ellipsoids require a further modification of order $\OO(\hbar^2)$ in the commuting invariants in order to assure self-adjointness and to recover the Laplacian for the case of free motion. For each case - in the ambient space ${\bf R}^{n}$, the sphere and the ellipsoid - the Schrödinger equations are completely separated in hyperellipsoidal coordinates, giving equations of generalized Lamé type.

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