The Picard Fuchs equations for complete hyperelliptic integrals of even order curves, and the actions of the generalized Neumann system

Abstract

We consider a family of genus 2 hyperelliptic curves of even order and obtain explicitly the system of 5 linear ODEs for periods of the corresponding Abelian integrals of first, second, and third kind, as functions of the parameters of the curves. The system is an extention of the well studied Picard--Fuchs equations for periods of complete integrals of first and second kind on odd hyperelliptic curves. The periods we consider are linear combinations of the action variables of several integrable systems, in particular the generalized Neumann system with polynomial separable potentials. Thus the solutions of the extended Picard--Fuchs equations can be used to study various properties of the actions.