Integrable Systems and Algebraic Geometry: Volume 1

A collection of articles discussing integrable systems and algebraic geometry from leading researchers in the field.

Ron Donagi (Edited by), Tony Shaska (Edited by)

9781108715744, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 April 2020

420 pages, 50 b/w illus. 6 tables
22.8 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.61 kg

'This is a book that will mainly be of interest to people who are at least aware of Emma Prevatio. It gives a good indication of the many areas of mathematics influenced by her work. It is clearly aimed more at working mathematicians or post-graduate students.' John Bartlett, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications

Created as a celebration of mathematical pioneer Emma Previato, this comprehensive book highlights the connections between algebraic geometry and integrable systems, differential equations, mathematical physics, and many other areas. The authors, many of whom have been at the forefront of research into these topics for the last decades, have all been influenced by Previato's research, as her collaborators, students, or colleagues. The diverse articles in the book demonstrate the wide scope of Previato's work and the inclusion of several survey and introductory articles makes the text accessible to graduate students and non-experts, as well as researchers. This first volume covers a wide range of areas related to integrable systems, often emphasizing the deep connections with algebraic geometry. Common themes include theta functions and Abelian varieties, Lax equations, integrable hierarchies, Hamiltonian flows and difference operators. These powerful tools are applied to spinning top, Hitchin, Painleve and many other notable special equations.

Integrable systems: a celebration of Emma Previator's 65th birthday Ron Donagi and Tony Shaska
1. Trace ideal properties of a class of integral operators Fritz Gesztesy and Roger Nichols
2. Explicit symmetries of the Kepler Hamiltonian Horst Knörrer
3. A note on the commutator of Hamiltonian vector fields Henryk ?o??dek
4. Nodal curves and a class of solutions of the Lax equation for shock clustering and Burgers turbulence Luen-Chau Li
5. Solvable dynamical systems in the plane with polynomial interactions Francesco Calogero and Farrin Payandeh
6. The projection method in classical mechanics A. M. Perelomov
7. Pencils of quadrics, billiard double-reflection and confocal incircular nets Vladimir Dragovi?, Milena Radnovi? and Roger Fidèle Ranomenjanahary
8. Bi-flat F-manifolds: a survey Alessandro Arsie and Paolo Lorenzoni
9. The periodic 6-particle Kac–Van Moerbeke system Pol Vanhaecke
10. Integrable mappings from a unified perspective Tova Brown and Nicholas M. Ercolani
11. On an Arnold–Liouville type theorem for the focusing NLS and the focusing mKdV equations T. Kappeler and P. Topalov
12. Commuting Hamiltonian flows of curves in real space forms Albert Chern, Felix Knöppel, Franz Pedit and Ulrich Pinkall
13. The Kowalewski top revisited F. Magri
14. The Calogero–Françoise integrable system: algebraic geometry, Higgs fields, and the inverse problem Steven Rayan, Thomas Stanley and Jacek Szmigielski
15. Tropical Markov dynamics and Cayley cubic K. Spalding and A. P. Veselov
16. Positive one-point commuting difference operators Gulnara S. Mauleshova and Andrey E. Mironov.

Subject Areas: Mathematical physics [PHU], Algebraic geometry [PBMW], Differential calculus & equations [PBKJ]