Higher-order superintegrable momentum-dependent Hamiltonians on curved spaces from the classical Zernike system

Abstract

Abstract We consider the classical momentum- or velocity-dependent two-dimensional Hamiltonian given by where q i and p i are generic canonical variables, γ n are arbitrary coefficients, and N ∈ N . For N = 2, being both γ 1 , γ 2 different from zero, this reduces to the classical Zernike system. We prove that always provides a superintegrable system (for any value of γ n and N) by obtaining the corresponding constants of the motion explicitly, which turn out to be of higher-order in the momenta. Such generic results are not only applied to the Euclidean plane, but also to the sphere and the hyperbolic plane. In the latter curved spaces, is expressed in geodesic polar coordinates showing that such a new superintegrable Hamiltonian can be regarded as a superposition of the isotropic 1 : 1 curved (Higgs) oscillator with even-order anharmonic curved oscillators plus another superposition of higher-order momentum-dependent potentials. Furthermore, the symmetry algebra determined by the constants of the motion is also studied, giving rise to a ( 2 N − 1 ) th-order polynomial algebra. As a byproduct, the Hamiltonian is interpreted as a family of superintegrable perturbations of the classical Zernike system. Finally, it is shown that (and so the Zernike system as well) is endowed with a Poisson s l ( 2 , R ) -coalgebra symmetry which would allow for further possible generalizations that are also discussed.