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SIGMA, 2011 Volume 7, 048, 15 pp. (Mi sigma606)

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Superintegrable Oscillator and Kepler Systems on Spaces of Nonconstant Curvature via the Stäckel Transform

Ángel Ballesterosa, Alberto Encisob, Francisco J. Herranza, Orlando Ragniscocd, Danilo Riglionicd

a Departamento de Física, Universidad de Burgos, E-09001 Burgos, Spain
b Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas (CSIC-UAM-UCM-UC3M), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientícas, C/ Nicolás Cabrera 14-16, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
c Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Dipartimento di Fisica E. Amaldi
d Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma Tre and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare sezione di Roma Tre, Via Vasca Navale 84, I-00146 Roma, Italy

Abstract: The Stäckel transform is applied to the geodesic motion on Euclidean space, through the harmonic oscillator and Kepler–Coloumb potentials, in order to obtain maximally superintegrable classical systems on $N$-dimensional Riemannian spaces of nonconstant curvature. By one hand, the harmonic oscillator potential leads to two families of superintegrable systems which are interpreted as an intrinsic Kepler–Coloumb system on a hyperbolic curved space and as the so-called Darboux III oscillator. On the other, the Kepler–Coloumb potential gives rise to an oscillator system on a spherical curved space as well as to the Taub-NUT oscillator. Their integrals of motion are explicitly given. The role of the (flat/curved) Fradkin tensor and Laplace–Runge–Lenz $N$-vector for all of these Hamiltonians is highlighted throughout the paper. The corresponding quantum maximally superintegrable systems are also presented.

Keywords: coupling constant metamorphosis; integrable systems; curvature; harmonic oscillator; Kepler–Coulomb; Fradkin tensor; Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector; Taub-NUT; Darboux surfaces.

MSC: 37J35; 70H06; 81R12

Received: March 18, 2011; in final form May 12, 2011; Published online May 14, 2011

Language: English

DOI: 10.3842/SIGMA.2011.048



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