Generating a chain of maps which preserve the same integral as a given map

Abstract

We generalise the concept of duality to systems of ordinary difference equations (or maps). We propose a procedure to construct a chain of systems of equations which are dual, with respect to an integral $H$, to the given system, by exploiting the integral relation, defined by the upshifted version and the original version of $H$. When the numerator of the integral relation is biquadratic or multi-linear, we point out conditions where a dual fails to exists. The procedure is applied to several two-component systems obtained as periodic reductions of 2D lattice equations, including the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger system, the two-component potential Korteweg-De Vries equation, the scalar modified Korteweg-De Vries equation, and a modified Boussinesq system.