Integrable quartic potentials and coupled KdV equations

Apr, 1995
11 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.A 201 (1995) 167
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Report number:
  • ETM-95-04

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Abstract:
We show a surprising connection between known integrable Hamiltonian systems with quartic potential and the stationary flows of some coupled KdV systems related to fourth order Lax operators. In particular, we present a connection between the Hirota-Satsuma coupled KdV system and (a generalisation of) the 1:6:11:6:1 integrable case quartic potential. A generalisation of the 1:6:81:6:8 case is similarly related to a different (but gauge related) fourth order Lax operator. We exploit this connection to derive a Lax representation for each of these integrable systems. In this context a canonical transformation is derived through a gauge transformation.