Bi-Hamiltonian structure of a dynamical system introduced by Braden and Hone

Jan 11, 2019
18 pages
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  • Nonlinearity 32 (2019) 11, 4377-4394
  • Published: Oct 9, 2019
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Abstract: (IOP)
We investigate the finite dimensional dynamical system derived by Braden and Hone in 1996 from the solitons of A n−1 affine Toda field theory. This system of evolution equations for an Hermitian matrix L and a real diagonal matrix q with distinct eigenvalues was interpreted as a special case of the spin Ruijsenaars–Schneider models due to Krichever and Zabrodin. A decade later, Li re-derived the model from a general framework built on coboundary dynamical Poisson groupoids. This led to a Hamiltonian description of the gauge invariant content of the model, where the gauge transformations act as conjugations of L by diagonal unitary matrices. Here, we point out that the same dynamics can be interpreted also as a special case of the spin Sutherland systems obtained by reducing the free geodesic motion on symmetric spaces, studied by Pusztai and the author in 2006; the relevant symmetric space being . This construction provides an alternative Hamiltonian interpretation of the Braden–Hone dynamics. We prove that the two Poisson brackets are compatible and yield a bi-Hamiltonian description of the standard commuting flows of the model.
Note:
  • 18 pages, references and some explanations added in v2
  • dynamical system
  • Poisson bracket
  • invariance: gauge
  • transformation: gauge
  • field theory: Toda
  • evolution equation
  • geodesic
  • soliton