Algebro-geometric aspects of superintegrability: the degenerate Neumann system

Abstract

In this article we use algebro-geometric tools to describe the structure of a superintegrable system. We study degenerate Neumann system with potential matrix that has some eigenvalues of multiplicity greater than one. We show that the degenerate Neumann system is superintegrable if and only if its spectral curve is reducible and that its flow can be linearized on the generalized Jacobians of the spectral curve. We also show that the generalized Jacobians of the hypereliptic component of the spectral curves are models for the minimal invariant tori of the flow. Moreover the spectral invariants generate local actions that span the invariant tori, while the moment maps for the rotational symmetries provide additional first integrals of the system. Using our results we reproduce already known facts that the degenerate Neumann system is superintegrable, if its potencial matrix has eigenvalues of multiplicity greater or equal than $3$.