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An integrable Henon-Heiles system on the sphere and the hyperbolic plane

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems 2015-10-02 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We construct a constant curvature analogue on the two-dimensional sphere S2{\mathbf S}^2 and the hyperbolic space H2{\mathbf H}^2 of the integrable H\'enon-Heiles Hamiltonian H\mathcal{H} given by H=12(p12+p22)+Ω(q12+4q22)+α(q12q2+2q23), \mathcal{H}=\dfrac{1}{2}(p_{1}^{2}+p_{2}^{2})+ \Omega \left( q_{1}^{2}+ 4 q_{2}^{2}\right) +\alpha \left( q_{1}^{2}q_{2}+2 q_{2}^{3}\right) , where Ω\Omega and α\alpha are real constants. The curved integrable Hamiltonian Hκ\mathcal{H}_\kappa so obtained depends on a parameter κ\kappa which is just the curvature of the underlying space, and is such that the Euclidean H\'enon-Heiles system H\mathcal{H} is smoothly obtained in the zero-curvature limit κ0\kappa\to 0. On the other hand, the Hamiltonian Hκ\mathcal{H}_\kappa that we propose can be regarded as an integrable perturbation of a known curved integrable 1:21:2 anisotropic oscillator. We stress that in order to obtain the curved H\'enon-Heiles Hamiltonian Hκ\mathcal{H}_\kappa, the preservation of the full integrability structure of the flat Hamiltonian H\mathcal{H} under the deformation generated by the curvature will be imposed. In particular, the existence of a curved analogue of the full Ramani-Dorizzi-Grammaticos (RDG) series Vn\cal{V}_{n} of integrable polynomial potentials, in which the flat H\'enon-Heiles potential can be embedded, will be essential in our construction. Such infinite family of curved RDG potentials Vκ,n\cal{V}_{\kappa, n} on S2{\mathbf S}^2 and H2{\mathbf H}^2 will be also explicitly presented.

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@article{arxiv.1411.2033,
  title  = {An integrable Henon-Heiles system on the sphere and the hyperbolic plane},
  author = {Angel Ballesteros and Alfonso Blasco and Francisco J. Herranz and Fabio Musso},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.2033},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

14 pages. Comments and references added. To appear in Nonlinearity