Integrability of Hamiltonian systems with homogeneous potentials of degrees $\pm 2$. An application of higher order variational equations

Guillaume Duval; Andrzej J. Maciejewski

doi:10.3934/dcds.2014.34.4589

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2014, Volume 34, Issue 11: 4589-4615. Doi: 10.3934/dcds.2014.34.4589

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Integrability of Hamiltonian systems with homogeneous potentials of degrees $\pm 2$. An application of higher order variational equations

Guillaume Duval^1, and
Andrzej J. Maciejewski^2,

1.
Laboratoire de Mathématiques et d'Informatique (LMI), INSA de Rouen, Avenue de l'Université, 76 801 Saint Etienne du Rouvray Cedex
2.
Kepler Institute of Astronomy, University of Zielona Góra, Licealna 9, PL-65-417, Zielona Góra

Received: January 2013

Revised: March 2014

Published: November 2014

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The present work is the first one of two papers, in which we analyse systems of higher order variational equations associated to natural Hamiltonian systems with homogeneous potential of degree $k\in\mathbb{Z}\setminus \{-1,0,1\}$. Our attempt is to give necessary conditions for complete integrability which can be deduced in a framework of differential Galois theory. We show that the higher variational equations $\mathrm{VE}_p$ of order $p\geq 2$, although complicated, have a very particular algebraic structure. More precisely, we show that if $\mathrm{VE}_1$ has virtually Abelian differential Galois group (DGG), then $\mathrm{VE}_{p}$ are solvable for an arbitrary $p>1$. We proved this inductively using what we call the second level integrals. Then we formulate the necessary and sufficient conditions in terms of these second level integrals for $\mathrm{VE}_{p}$ to be virtually Abelian. We apply the above conditions to potentials of degree $k=\pm 2$ considering their $\mathrm{VE}_p$ with $p>1$ along Darboux points. For $k= 2$, $\mathrm{VE}_1$ does not give any obstruction to the integrability. We show that under certain non-resonance condition, the only degree two integrable potential is the multidimensional harmonic oscillator. In contrast, for degree $k=-2$ potentials, all the $\mathrm{VE}_{p}$ along Darboux points are virtually Abelian.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 37J30, 70H07, 37J35, 34M35.

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