An integrable Henon-Heiles system on the sphere and the hyperbolic plane

preprint2015arXivOpen access

Abstract

We construct a constant curvature analogue on the two-dimensional sphere S2{\mathbf S}^2 and the hyperbolic space H2{\mathbf H}^2 of the integrable Hénon-Heiles Hamiltonian H\mathcal{H} given by H=12(p12+p22)+Ω(q12+4q22)+α(q12q2+2q23), \mathcal{H}=\dfrac{1}{2}(p_{1}^{2}+p_{2}^{2})+ Ω\left( q_{1}^{2}+ 4 q_{2}^{2}\right) +α\left( q_{1}^{2}q_{2}+2 q_{2}^{3}\right) , where ΩΩ and αα are real constants. The curved integrable Hamiltonian Hκ\mathcal{H}_κ so obtained depends on a parameter κκ which is just the curvature of the underlying space, and is such that the Euclidean Hénon-Heiles system H\mathcal{H} is smoothly obtained in the zero-curvature limit κ→0κ\to 0. On the other hand, the Hamiltonian Hκ\mathcal{H}_κ that we propose can be regarded as an integrable perturbation of a known curved integrable 1:21:2 anisotropic oscillator. We stress that in order to obtain the curved Hénon-Heiles Hamiltonian Hκ\mathcal{H}_κ, the preservation of the full integrability structure of the flat Hamiltonian H\mathcal{H} under the deformation generated by the curvature will be imposed. In particular, the existence of a curved analogue of the full Ramani-Dorizzi-Grammaticos (RDG) series Vn\cal{V}_{n} of integrable polynomial potentials, in which the flat Hénon-Heiles potential can be embedded, will be essential in our construction. Such infinite family of curved RDG potentials Vκ,n\cal{V}_{κ, n} on S2{\mathbf S}^2 and H2{\mathbf H}^2 will be also explicitly presented.

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