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Topological Monodromy of an Integrable Heisenberg Spin Chain

Symplectic Geometry 2015-08-03 v3

Abstract

We investigate topological properties of a completely integrable system on S2×S2×S2S^2\times S^2 \times S^2 which was recently shown to have a Lagrangian fiber diffeomorphic to RP3\mathbb{R} P^3 not displaceable by a Hamiltonian isotopy [Oakley J., Ph.D. Thesis, University of Georgia, 2014]. This system can be viewed as integrating the determinant, or alternatively, as integrating a classical Heisenberg spin chain. We show that the system has non-trivial topological monodromy and relate this to the geometric interpretation of its integrals.

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@article{arxiv.1411.7063,
  title  = {Topological Monodromy of an Integrable Heisenberg Spin Chain},
  author = {Jeremy Lane},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.7063},
  year   = {2015}
}