Block-Separation of Variables: a Form of Partial Separation for Natural Hamiltonians

Claudia Maria Chanu ; Giovanni Rastelli

Symmetry, integrability and geometry: methods and applications, Tome 15 (2019)

Résumé

We study twisted products $H=\alpha^rH_r$ of natural autonomous Hamiltonians $H_r$, each one depending on a separate set, called here separate $r$-block, of variables. We show that, when the twist functions $\alpha^r$ are a row of the inverse of a block-Stäckel matrix, the dynamics of $H$ reduces to the dynamics of the $H_r$, modified by a scalar potential depending only on variables of the corresponding $r$-block. It is a kind of partial separation of variables. We characterize this block-separation in an invariant way by writing in block-form classical results of Stäckel separation of variables. We classify the block-separable coordinates of $\mathbb E^3$.

Détail

Keywords: Stäckel systems; partial separation of variables; position-dependent time parametrisation.

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