Reductions and degenerate limits of Yang-Baxter maps with $3\times 3$ Lax matrices

Abstract

We generalise a family of quadrirational parametric Yang-Baxter maps with $3\times 3$ Lax matrices by introducing additional essential parameters. These maps preserve a prescribed Poisson structure which originates from the Sklyanin bracket. We investigate various low-dimensional reductions of this family, as well as degenerate limits with respect to the parameters that were introduced. As a result, we derive several birational Yang-Baxter maps, and we discuss some of their integrability properties. This work is part of a more general classification of Yang-Baxter maps admitting a strong $3\times 3$ Lax matrix with a linear dependence on the spectral parameter.

Paper submitted to a special issue of Journal of Physics A on Dualities and Symmetries in Integrable Systems