The classical dynamic symmetry for the U(1)-Kepler problems
Abstract
For the Jordan algebra of hermitian matrices of order n 2, we let X be its submanifold consisting of rank-one semi-positive definite elements. The composition of the cotangent bundle map πX: T*X X with the canonical map X CPn-1 (i.e., the map that sends a hermitian matrix to its column space), pulls back the K\"ahler form of the Fubini-Study metric on CPn-1 to a real closed differential two-form ωK on T*X. Let ωX be the canonical symplectic form on T*X and μ be a real number. A standard fact says that ωμ:=ωX+2μ\,ωK turns T*X into a symplectic manifold, hence a Poisson manifold with Poisson bracket \\, ,\,\μ. In this article we exhibit a Poisson realization of the simple real Lie algebra su(n, n) on the Poisson manifold (T*X, \\, ,\,\μ), i.e., a Lie algebra homomorphism from su(n, n) to (C∞(T*X, R), \\, ,\,\μ). Consequently one obtains the Laplace-Runge-Lenz vector for the classical U(1)-Kepler problem with level n and magnetic charge μ. Since the McIntosh-Cisneros-Zwanziger-Kepler problems (MICZ-Kepler Problems) are the U(1)-Kepler problems with level 2, the work presented here is a direct generalization of the work by A. Barut and G. Bornzin [ J. Math. Phys. 12 (1971), 841-843] on the classical dynamic symmetry for the MICZ-Kepler problems.
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