Rational Integrability of Trigonometric Polynomial Potentials on the Flat Torus

    2017, Volume 22, Number 4, pp.  386-407

    Author(s): Combot T.

    We consider a lattice $\mathcal{L}\subset \mathbb{R}^n$ and a trigonometric potential $V$ with frequencies $k\in\mathcal{L}$. We then prove a strong rational integrability condition on $V$, using the support of its Fourier transform. We then use this condition to prove that a real trigonometric polynomial potential is rationally integrable if and only if it separates up to rotation of the coordinates. Removing the real condition, we also make a classification of rationally integrable potentials in dimension 2 and 3, and recover several integrable cases. These potentials after a complex variable change become real, and correspond to generalized Toda integrable potentials. Moreover, along the proof, some of them with high degree first integrals are explicitly integrated.
    Keywords: trigonometric polynomials, differential Galois theory, integrability, Toda lattice
    Citation: Combot T., Rational Integrability of Trigonometric Polynomial Potentials on the Flat Torus, Regular and Chaotic Dynamics, 2017, Volume 22, Number 4, pp. 386-407



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