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A family of compact semitoric systems with two focus-focus singularities

Symplectic Geometry 2018-10-16 v3 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

About 6 years ago, semitoric systems were classified by Pelayo & Vu Ngoc by means of five invariants. Standard examples are the coupled spin oscillator on S2×R2\mathbb{S}^2 \times \mathbb{R}^2 and coupled angular momenta on S2×S2\mathbb{S}^2 \times \mathbb{S}^2, both having exactly one focus-focus singularity. But so far there were no explicit examples of systems with more than one focus-focus singularity which are semitoric in the sense of that classification. This paper introduces a 6-parameter family of integrable systems on S2×S2\mathbb{S}^2 \times \mathbb{S}^2 and proves that, for certain ranges of the parameters, it is a compact semitoric system with precisely two focus-focus singularities. Since the twisting index (one of the semitoric invariants) is related to the relationship between different focus-focus points, this paper provides systems for the future study of the twisting index.

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@article{arxiv.1710.05746,
  title  = {A family of compact semitoric systems with two focus-focus singularities},
  author = {Sonja Hohloch and Joseph Palmer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.05746},
  year   = {2018}
}

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