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A new integrable anisotropic oscillator on the two-dimensional sphere and the hyperbolic plane

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems 2014-10-28 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

A new integrable generalization to the 2D sphere S2S^2 and to the hyperbolic space H2H^2 of the 2D Euclidean anisotropic oscillator Hamiltonian with Rosochatius (centrifugal) terms is presented, and its curved integral of the motion is shown to be quadratic in the momenta. In order to construct such a new integrable Hamiltonian HκH_\kappa, we will make use of a group theoretical approach in which the curvature κ\kappa of the underlying space will be treated as an additional (contraction) parameter, and we will make extensive use of projective coordinates and their associated phase spaces. It turns out that when the oscillator parameters Ω1\Omega_1 and Ω2\Omega_2 are such that Ω2=4Ω1\Omega_2=4\Omega_1, the system turns out to be the well-known superintegrable 1:2 oscillator on S2S^2 and H2H^2. Nevertheless, numerical integration of the trajectories of HκH_\kappa suggests that for other values of the parameters Ω1\Omega_1 and Ω2\Omega_2 the system is not superintegrable. In this way, we support the conjecture that for each commensurate (and thus superintegrable) m:nm:n Euclidean oscillator there exists a two-parametric family of curved integrable (but not superintegrable) oscillators that turns out to be superintegrable only when the parameters are tuned to the m:nm:n commensurability condition.

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@article{arxiv.1403.1829,
  title  = {A new integrable anisotropic oscillator on the two-dimensional sphere and the hyperbolic plane},
  author = {Angel Ballesteros and Alfonso Blasco and Francisco J. Herranz and Fabio Musso},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.1829},
  year   = {2014}
}

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