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Bi-Hamiltonian structure of a dynamical system introduced by Braden and Hone

arXiv:1901.03558 · doi:10.1088/1361-6544/ab2d5e

Abstract

We investigate the finite dimensional dynamical system derived by Braden and Hone in 1996 from the solitons of affine Toda field theory. This system of evolution equations for an Hermitian matrix and a real diagonal matrix with distinct eigenvalues was interpreted as a special case of the spin Ruijsenaars--Schneider models due to Krichever and Zabrodin. A decade later, L.-C. Li re-derived the model from a general framework built on coboundary dynamical Poisson groupoids. This led to a Hamiltonian description of the gauge invariant content of the model, where the gauge transformations act as conjugations of by diagonal unitary matrices. Here, we point out that the same dynamics can be interpreted also as a special case of the spin Sutherland systems obtained by reducing the free geodesic motion on symmetric spaces, studied by Pusztai and the author in 2006; the relevant symmetric space being . This construction provides an alternative Hamiltonian interpretation of the Braden--Hone dynamics. We prove that the two Poisson brackets are compatible and yield a bi-Hamiltonian description of the standard commuting flows of the model.

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