Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-7-2015

Department

Department of Mathematics

Department

Mathematics

Abstract

Bi-Hamiltonian structures are of great importance in the theory of integrable Hamiltonian systems. The notion of compatibility of symplectic structures is a key aspect of bi-Hamiltonian systems. Because of this, a few different notions of compatibility have been introduced. In this paper we show that, under some additional assumptions, compatibility in the sense of Magri implies a notion of compatibility due to Fass`o and Ratiu, that we dub bi-affine compatibility. We present two proofs of this fact. The first one uses the uniqueness of the connection parallelizing all the Hamiltonian vector fields tangent to the leaves of a Lagrangian foliation. The second proof uses Darboux–Nijenhuis coordinates and symplectic connections.

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Copyright © Manuele Santoprete. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the CC BY-SA 4.0 Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence.

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