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Superintegrability of Geodesic Motion on the Sausage Model

arXiv:1608.06481 · doi:10.1088/1751-8121/aa9314

Abstract

Reduction of the -deformed sigma model on to the two-dimensional squashed sphere can be viewed as a special case of the Fateev sausage model where the coupling constant is imaginary. We show that geodesic motion in this model is described by a certain superintegrable mechanical system with four-dimensional phase space. This is done by means of explicitly constructing three integrals of motion which satisfy the Poisson algebra relations, albeit being non-polynomial in momenta. Further, we find a canonical transformation which transforms the Hamiltonian of this mechanical system to the one describing the geodesic motion on the usual two-sphere. By inverting this transformation we map geodesics on this auxiliary two-sphere back to the sausage model. This paper is a tribute to the memory of Prof. Petr Kulish.

30 pages, 4 figures; v2: added results for geodesic motion on the mirror geometry of S^2, matches published version

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