Nonlinear Sciences – Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems
Scientific paper
2007-10-23
Nonlinear Sciences
Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems
To appear on Journal of Mathematical Physics
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.2811706
In this paper we explore general conditions which guarantee that the geodesic flow on a 2-dimensional manifold with indefinite signature is locally separable. This is equivalent to showing that a 2-dimensional natural Hamiltonian system on the hyperbolic plane possesses a second integral of motion which is a quadratic polynomial in the momenta associated with a 2nd-rank Killing tensor. We examine the possibility that the integral is preserved by the Hamiltonian flow on a given energy hypersurface only (weak integrability) and derive the additional requirement necessary to have conservation at arbitrary values of the Hamiltonian (strong integrability). Using null coordinates, we show that the leading-order coefficients of the invariant are arbitrary functions of one variable in the case of weak integrability. These functions are quadratic polynomials in the coordinates in the case of strong integrability. We show that for $(1+1)$-dimensional systems there are three possible types of conformal Killing tensors, and therefore, three distinct separability structures in contrast to the single standard Hamilton-Jacobi type separation in the positive definite case. One of the new separability structures is the complex/harmonic type which is characterized by complex separation variables. The other new type is the linear/null separation which occurs when the conformal Killing tensor has a null eigenvector.
Pucacco Giuseppe
Rosquist Kjell
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