Spinning particles on 2-sphere in accord with the Bianchi classification

Abstract

Motivated by recent studies of superconformal mechanics extended by spin degrees of freedom, we construct minimally superintegrable models of spinning particles on 2-sphere, the spin degrees of freedom of which are represented by a 3-vector obeying the structure relations of a 3d real Lie algebra. Generalisations involving an external field of the Dirac monopole, or the motion on the group manifold of SU(2), or a scalar potential giving rise to two quadratic constants of the motion are discussed. A procedure how to build similar extensions, which rely upon d=4,5,6 real Lie algebras, is elucidated.