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Quasiperiodic Motion for the Pentagram Map

Dynamical Systems 2009-01-13 v1 Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems

Abstract

The pentagram map is a projectively natural iteration defined on polygons, and also on a generalized notion of a polygon which we call {\it twisted polygons}. In this note we describe our recent work on the pentagram map, in which we find a Poisson structure on the space of twisted polygons and show that the pentagram map relative to this Poisson structure is completely integrable in the sense of Arnold-Liouville. For certain families of twisted polygons, such as those we call {\it universally convex}, we translate the integrability into a statement about the quasi-periodic notion of the pentagram-map orbits. We also explain how the continuous limit of the Pentagram map is the classical Boissinesq equation, a completely integrable PDE.

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@article{arxiv.0901.1585,
  title  = {Quasiperiodic Motion for the Pentagram Map},
  author = {Valentin Ovsienko and Richard Schwartz and Serge Tabachnikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.1585},
  year   = {2009}
}

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This note is a short announcement of arXiv:0810.5605

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