Construction of new integrable Hamiltonians in two degrees of freedom

1982/06/01 by Craig R. Holt · 118 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Classical mechanics #Degrees of freedom (physics and chemistry) #Integrable system #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Motion (physics) #Nonlinear Photonic Systems #Nonlinear Waves and Solitons #Perturbation (astronomy) #Physics #Quantum chaos and dynamical systems #Quantum mechanics #Truncation (statistics)

paper · doi:10.1063/1.525492

published in Journal of Mathematical Physics 23(6), 1037-1046 (American Institute of Physics)

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Abstract

A new procedure for deriving integrable Hamiltonians and their constants of the motion is introduced. We term this procedure the truncation program. Integrable Hamiltonians occurring in the truncation program possess constants of the motion which are polynomials in a perturbation parameter ε. The relationship between this program and the Whittaker program in two degrees of freedom is discussed. Integrable Hamiltonians occurring in the Whittaker program (a generalization of Whittaker’s work) possess constants of the motion which are polynomials in the momentum coordinates. Many previously known integrable Hamiltonians are derived. A new family of integrable double resonance Hamiltonians and a new family of integrable Hamiltonians of the form (p21+p22)/2+V(q1, q2) are derived.

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