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Integrability of homogeneous exact magnetic flows on spheres

Differential Geometry 2025-07-29 v2 Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems

Abstract

We consider motion of a material point placed in a constant homogeneous magnetic field in Rn\mathbb R^n and also motion restricted to the sphere Sn1S^{n-1}. While there is an obvious integrability of the magnetic system in Rn\mathbb R^n, the integrability of the system restricted to the sphere Sn1S^{n-1} is highly non-trivial. We prove complete integrability of the obtained restricted magnetic systems for n6n\le 6. The first integrals of motion of the magnetic flows on the spheres Sn1S^{n-1}, for n=5n=5 and n=6n=6, are polynomials of the degree 11, 22, and 33 in momenta. We prove noncommutative integrability of the obtained magnetic flows for any n7n\ge 7 when the systems allow a reduction to the cases with n6n\le 6. We conjecture that the restricted magnetic systems on Sn1S^{n-1} are integrable for all nn.

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@article{arxiv.2504.20515,
  title  = {Integrability of homogeneous exact magnetic flows on spheres},
  author = {Vladimir Dragovic and Borislav Gajic and Bozidar Jovanovic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.20515},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

16 pages, 1 figure, final version, to appear in Regul. Chaot. Dyn