Singularities of integrable systems and nodal curves

2014/08/21 by Izosimov, Anton
#Algebraic Geometry (math.AG) #Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI) #FOS: Mathematics #FOS: Physical sciences #Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1408.4844

Abstract

The relation between integrable systems and algebraic geometry is known since the XIXth century. The modern approach is to represent an integrable system as a Lax equation with spectral parameter. In this approach, the integrals of the system turn out to be the coefficients of the characteristic polynomial χ of the Lax matrix, and the solutions are expressed in terms of theta functions related to the curve χ= 0. The aim of the present paper is to show that the possibility to write an integrable system in the Lax form, as well as the algebro-geometric technique related to this possibility, may also be applied to study qualitative features of the system, in particular its singularities.

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