Superintegrable systems in curved spaces via coalgebras and deformed Racah algebras
Abstract
We determine the Poisson algebras generated by partial Casimirs of undeformed and non-standard q-deformed sl(2) coalgebras, respectively. The derivation is performed on the abstract algebraic level and does not depend on any particular symplectic realization. For the 3- and 4-site cases the constructions associated with the undeformed sl(2) produce the rank-one and rank-two Racah Poisson algebras, respectively, while those with the non-standard deformed sl yield finite quadratic Poisson algebras generated by connected partial Casimirs. At both the three and four sites, the final closure coefficients do not explicitly depend on the deformation parameter. The results hold at the Poisson coalgebra level and hence apply to any realizations which preserve the defining brackets and coproducts. Canonical symplectic realizations give rise to Hamiltonians in spaces of non-constant curvature. For the Stäckel q-deformed Smorodinsky-Winternitz model we show explicitly how the universal coalgebra sector is completed to maximal superintegrability. An exact two-block identity, proved directly in the localized Poisson algebra without appealing to a symplectic realization, controls the additional Stäckel integrals. In three dimensions, it generates a quadratic Poisson block with its own Casimir relation; in four dimensions, its coupling to the full left/right coalgebra family is organized into three nested quadratic blocks, and the same identity extends this nested coupling to arbitrary N. Explicit higher-site partial Casimirs and factorized bracket generators are collected in the appendices.
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BibTeX
@misc{jimenezswain2026superintegrable,
title = {{Superintegrable systems in curved spaces via coalgebras and deformed Racah algebras}},
author = {Samuel Jimenez-Swain and Ian Marquette and Yao-Zhong Zhang},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.16154},
eprint = {2610.16154},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.16154},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Superintegrable systems in curved spaces via coalgebras and deformed Racah algebras
AU - Samuel Jimenez-Swain
AU - Ian Marquette
AU - Yao-Zhong Zhang
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/12
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.16154
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.16154
AB - We determine the Poisson algebras generated by partial Casimirs of undeformed and non-standard q-deformed sl(2) coalgebras, respectively. The derivation is performed on the abstract algebraic level and does not depend on any particular symplectic realization. For the 3- and 4-site cases the constructions associated with the undeformed sl(2) produce the rank-one and rank-two Racah Poisson algebras, respectively, while those with the non-standard deformed sl yield finite quadratic Poisson algebras generated by connected partial Casimirs. At both the three and four sites, the final closure coefficients do not explicitly depend on the deformation parameter. The results hold at the Poisson coalgebra level and hence apply to any realizations which preserve the defining brackets and coproducts. Canonical symplectic realizations give rise to Hamiltonians in spaces of non-constant curvature. For the Stäckel q-deformed Smorodinsky-Winternitz model we show explicitly how the universal coalgebra sector is completed to maximal superintegrability. An exact two-block identity, proved directly in the localized Poisson algebra without appealing to a symplectic realization, controls the additional Stäckel integrals. In three dimensions, it generates a quadratic Poisson block with its own Casimir relation; in four dimensions, its coupling to the full left/right coalgebra family is organized into three nested quadratic blocks, and the same identity extends this nested coupling to arbitrary N. Explicit higher-site partial Casimirs and factorized bracket generators are collected in the appendices.
ER -