Quantisations of the Volterra hierarchy

Abstract

In this paper we explore a recently emerged approach to the problem of quantisation based on the notion of quantisation ideals. We explicitly prove that the nonabelian Volterra together with the whole hierarchy of its symmetries admit a deformation quantisation. We show that all odd-degree symmetries of the Volterra hierarchy admit also a non-deformation quantisation. We discuss the quantisation problem for periodic Volterra hierarchy including their quantum Hamiltonians, central elements of the quantised algebras, and demonstrate super-integrability of the quantum systems obtained. We show that the Volterra system with period $3$ admits a bi-quantum structure, which can be regarded as a quantum deformation of its classical bi-Hamiltonian structure.