Jacobi last multiplier and two-dimensional superintegrable oscillators
Abstract
In this paper, we examine the role of the Jacobi last multiplier in the context of two-dimensional oscillators. We first consider two-dimensional unit-mass oscillators admitting a separable Hamiltonian description, i.e., , where and are the Hamiltonians of two one-dimensional unit-mass oscillators; it is shown that there exists a third functionally-independent first integral , thereby ensuring superintegrablility. Various examples are explicitly worked out. We then consider position-dependent-mass oscillators and the Bateman pair, where the latter consists of a pair of dissipative linear oscillators. Quite remarkably, the Bateman pair is found to be superintegrable, despite admitting a Hamiltonian which cannot be separated into those of two isolated (non-interacting) one-dimensional oscillators.
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@article{arxiv.2306.08837,
title = {Jacobi last multiplier and two-dimensional superintegrable oscillators},
author = {Akash Sinha and Aritra Ghosh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.08837},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
v1: Preliminary version, comments are welcome; v2: Revised version with some new examples and few errors corrected; V3: To appear in Pramana