The anisotropic oscillator on the two-dimensional sphere and the hyperbolic plane
Abstract
An integrable generalization on the two-dimensional sphere S^2 and the hyperbolic plane H^2 of the Euclidean anisotropic oscillator Hamiltonian with "centrifugal" terms given by is presented. The resulting generalized Hamiltonian H_\kappa\ depends explicitly on the constant Gaussian curvature \kappa\ of the underlying space, in such a way that all the results here presented hold simultaneously for S^2 (\kappa>0), H^2 (\kappa<0) and E^2 (\kappa=0). Moreover, H_\kappa\ is explicitly shown to be integrable for any values of the parameters \delta, \Omega, \lambda_1 and \lambda_2. Therefore, H_\kappa\ can also be interpreted as an anisotropic generalization of the curved Higgs oscillator, that is recovered as the isotropic limit \Omega=0 of H_\kappa. Furthermore, numerical integration of some of the trajectories for H_\kappa\ are worked out and the dynamical features arising from the introduction of a curved background are highlighted. The superintegrability issue for H_\kappa\ is discussed by focusing on the value \Omega=3\delta, which is one of the cases for which the Euclidean Hamiltonian H is known to be superintegrable (the 1:2 oscillator). We show numerically that for \Omega=3\delta\ the curved Hamiltonian H_\kappa\ presents nonperiodic bounded trajectories, which seems to indicate that H_\kappa\ provides a non-superintegrable generalization of H. We compare this result with a previously known superintegrable curved analogue H'_\kappa\ of the 1:2 Euclidean oscillator showing that the \Omega=3\delta\ specialization of H_\kappa\ does not coincide with H'_\kappa. Finally, the geometrical interpretation of the curved "centrifugal" terms appearing in H_\kappa\ is also discussed in detail.
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@article{arxiv.1207.0071,
title = {The anisotropic oscillator on the two-dimensional sphere and the hyperbolic plane},
author = {Angel Ballesteros and Francisco J. Herranz and Fabio Musso},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.0071},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
20 pages, 7 figures. Comments, explanations and references added. To appear in Nonlinearity