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Hamiltonian evolutions of twisted gons in $\RP^n$

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems 2015-06-05 v2

Abstract

In this paper we describe a well-chosen discrete moving frame and their associated invariants along projective polygons in \RPn\RP^n, and we use them to write explicit general expressions for invariant evolutions of projective NN-gons. We then use a reduction process inspired by a discrete Drinfeld-Sokolov reduction to obtain a natural Hamiltonian structure on the space of projective invariants, and we establish a close relationship between the projective NN-gon evolutions and the Hamiltonian evolutions on the invariants of the flow. We prove that {any} Hamiltonian evolution is induced on invariants by an evolution of NN-gons - what we call a projective realization - and we give the direct connection. Finally, in the planar case we provide completely integrable evolutions (the Boussinesq lattice related to the lattice W3W_3-algebra), their projective realizations and their Hamiltonian pencil. We generalize both structures to nn-dimensions and we prove that they are Poisson. We define explicitly the nn-dimensional generalization of the planar evolution (the discretization of the WnW_n-algebra) and prove that it is completely integrable, providing also its projective realization.

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@article{arxiv.1207.6524,
  title  = {Hamiltonian evolutions of twisted gons in $\RP^n$},
  author = {Gloria Marí Beffa and Jing Ping Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.6524},
  year   = {2015}
}