Jacobian variety and Integrable system -- after Mumford, Beauville and Vanhaecke

Abstract

Beauville introduced an integrable Hamiltonian system whose general level set is isomorphic to the complement of the theta divisor in the Jacobian of the spectral curve. This can be regarded as a generalization of the Mumford system. In this article, we construct a variant of Beauville's system whose general level set is isomorphic to the complement of the `intersection' of the translations of the theta divisor in the Jacobian. A suitable subsystem of our system can be regarded as a generalization of the even Mumford system introduced by Vanhaecke.