Geodesic compatibility: Goldfish systems

Abstract

To capture a multidimensional consistency feature of integrable systems in terms of the geometry, we give a condition called \emph{geodesic compatibility} that implies the existence of integrals in involution of the geodesic flow. The geodesic compatibility condition is constructed from a concrete example namely the integrable Calogero's Goldfish system through the Poisson structure and the variational principle. The geometrical view of the geodesic compatibility gives a compatible parallel transport between two different Hamiltonian vector fields.

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