POISSON STRUCTURE AND INTEGRABILITY OF THE NEUMANN-MOSER-UHLENBECK MODEL

Abstract

Neumann’s model, describing the motion of a particle on an N-sphere under harmonic forces, is studied from the point of view of classical and quantum integrability. Classical integrability is derived from a generalized structure, “R-S couple” or “D-matrix” for the Poisson brackets of the Lax operator. The already-known set of conserved quantities for this model turns out to follow straightforwardly from this structure. It gives rise to a set of commuting operators at the quantum level, and the algebra of Lax operators directly follows from the classical one.