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Homogeneous potentials, Lagrange's identity and Poisson geometry

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems 2026-03-31 v4 Mathematical Physics Dynamical Systems math.MP Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

The Lagrange identity expresses the second derivative of the moment of inertia of a system of material points through kinetic energy and homogeneous potential energy, from which follows the Jacobi well-known result on the instability of a system of gravitating bodies. In this work, it is proven that if a Hamiltonian system satisfies the Lagrange identity, then it possesses additional tensor invariants that are not expressed through the basic invariants existing for all Hamiltonian systems. A new class of Hamiltonian systems with inhomogeneous potentials is considered, which also possess similar additional tensor invariants.

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@article{arxiv.2511.19903,
  title  = {Homogeneous potentials, Lagrange's identity and Poisson geometry},
  author = {A. V. Tsiganov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.19903},
  year   = {2026}
}

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9 pages, LaTeX with Ams fonts

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