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Lax pair tensors and integrable spacetimes

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-06-25 v1 Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems solv-int

Abstract

The use of Lax pair tensors as a unifying framework for Killing tensors of arbitrary rank is discussed. Some properties of the tensorial Lax pair formulation are stated. A mechanical system with a well-known Lax representation -- the three-particle open Toda lattice -- is geometrized by a suitable canonical transformation. In this way the Toda lattice is realized as the geodesic system of a certain Riemannian geometry. By using different canonical transformations we obtain two inequivalent geometries which both represent the original system. Adding a timelike dimension gives four-dimensional spacetimes which admit two Killing vector fields and are completely integrable.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9707003,
  title  = {Lax pair tensors and integrable spacetimes},
  author = {Kjell Rosquist and Martin Goliath},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9707003},
  year   = {2015}
}

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