Hamiltonian evolutions of twisted gons in $\RP^n$
Abstract
In this paper we describe a well-chosen discrete moving frame and their associated invariants along projective polygons in , and we use them to write explicit general expressions for invariant evolutions of projective -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 -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 -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 -algebra), their projective realizations and their Hamiltonian pencil. We generalize both structures to -dimensions and we prove that they are Poisson. We define explicitly the -dimensional generalization of the planar evolution (the discretization of the -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}
}