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Elliptic Schlesinger system and Painlev{\'e} VI

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Yu.Chernyakov, A.M.Levin, M.Olshanetsky, A.Zotov

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Submitted 20 Feb 2006 · 18 references

Pith's reading: The authors construct the elliptic Schlesinger system, a non-autonomous Hamiltonian isomonodromy system on an elliptic curve with the modular parameter as an extra time, and reduce a four-point case to Painlevé VI.

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CitationA.M.Levin, A.Zotov, M.Olshanetsky, Yu.Chernyakov. "Elliptic Schlesinger system and Painlev{\'e} VI." arXiv:nlin/0602043 (2006). https://pith.science/paper/N2B27OYZ
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The authors construct the elliptic Schlesinger system, a non-autonomous Hamiltonian isomonodromy system on an elliptic curve with the modular parameter as an extra time, and reduce a four-point case to Painlevé VI.

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The Schlesinger equations describe how the residues of a matrix differential equation with simple poles move when the pole positions change, in such a way that the monodromy of the solution (the way solutions twist when going around the poles) stays the same. For four poles this theory is equivalent to the Painlevé VI equation, a famous second-order differential equation. This paper moves the same setup from a sphere to a torus, an elliptic curve. On a torus there is one more geometric parameter: the torus itself can change shape, and the paper treats that shape parameter as an additional time. The authors define a new system, the elliptic Schlesinger system (ESS), with one Hamiltonian per pole plus one for the shape of the torus. They derive it from a geometric picture: flat bundles of degree one over the torus, with the deformation of the complex structure producing the Hamiltonians. The result is a Lax pair, pairwise commuting flows, and a tau-function. The paper also writes the ESS in a second, quadratic Poisson bracket, a multi-color generalization of the Sklyanin-Feigin-Odesski algebras. For two-by-two matrices and four marked points, with a special choice of initial data, the ESS reduces to a non-autonomous gyrostat (a spinning top with constant momentum), which the authors' earlier work showed is Painlevé VI in elliptic form.
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Core claim

The central assertion (Definition 2.1 plus the bullets in Section 2.1) is that the elliptic Schlesinger system (2.6)-(2.8) on P^{(1)}_{n,N} is a consistent non-autonomous Hamiltonian system with pairwise commuting Hamiltonians (2.15)-(2.16), admits the Lax representation (2.39)-(2.41), and is exactly the monodromy preserving condition for flat rank N, degree one bundles over Sigma_tau under deformations of the marked points and of the modular parameter. If correct, the paper opens a systematic elliptic isomonodromy framework with tau as a genuine isomonodromic time.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is the completeness of the symplectic reduction in Section 2.2.3: after imposing the moment constraint (2.36), including the degree-one term -N delta(w,wbar) t_0, and the gauge fixing (2.37), the quotient of the infinite-dimensional connection space is exactly the product of coadjoint orbits R^{(1)}_{N,tau,n} isomorphic to the product of O_j (Proposition 2.1), and the reduced Hamiltonians coincide with (2.15)-(2.16). The text only says 'It can be found that H_{1,j} coincide with (2.15)', so the identification of the explicit ESS with the monodromy-preserving deformation of the flat degree-one bundle rests on a reduction lemma that is asserted more than demonstrated. If residual gauge freedom exists or the moment constraint misses terms, the ESS would not be the isomonodromy deformation it claims to be.

Original abstract

We construct an elliptic generalization of the Schlesinger system (ESS) with positions of marked points on an elliptic curve and its modular parameter as independent variables (the parameters in the moduli space of the complex structure). ESS is a non-autonomous Hamiltonian system with pair-wise commuting Hamiltonians. The system is bihamiltonian with respect to the linear and the quadratic Poisson brackets. The latter are the multi-color generalization of the Sklyanin-Feigin-Odeskii classical algebras. We give the Lax form of the ESS. The Lax matrix defines a connection of a flat bundle of degree one over the elliptic curve with first order poles at the marked points. The ESS is the monodromy independence condition on the complex structure for the linear systems related to the flat bundle. The case of four points for a special initial data is reduced to the Painlev{\'e} VI equation in the form of the Zhukovsky-Volterra gyrostat, proposed in our previous paper.

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We construct an elliptic generalization of the Schlesinger system (ESS) with positions of marked points on an elliptic curve and its modular parameter as independent variables (the parameters in the moduli space of the complex structure). ESS is a non-autonomous Hamiltonian system with pair-wise commuting Hamiltonians. The system is bihamiltonian with respect to the linear and the quadratic Poisson brackets. The latter are the multi-color generalization of the Sklyanin-Feigin-Odeskii classical algebras. We give the Lax form of the ESS. The Lax matrix defines a connection of a flat bundle of degree one over the elliptic curve with first order poles at the marked points. The ESS is the monodromy independence condition on the complex structure for the linear systems related to the flat bundle. The case of four points for a special initial data is reduced to the Painlev{\'e} VI equation in the form of the Zhukovsky-Volterra gyrostat, proposed in our previous paper.

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s0 We construct an elliptic generalization of the Schlesinger system (ESS) with positions of marked points on an elliptic curve and its modular parameter as independent variables (the parameters in the moduli space of the complex structure). contribution 1.00 0.95 0.24 asserted 1.00
s1 ESS is a non-autonomous Hamiltonian system with pair-wise commuting Hamiltonians. result 0.78 0.52 0.09 asserted 1.00
s2 The system is bihamiltonian with respect to the linear and the quadratic Poisson brackets. result 0.86 0.76 0.09 asserted 1.00
s3 The latter are the multi-color generalization of the Sklyanin-Feigin-Odeskii classical algebras. interpretation 0.46 0.31 0.04 asserted 1.00
s4 We give the Lax form of the ESS. contribution 0.94 0.94 0.07 asserted 1.00
s5 The Lax matrix defines a connection of a flat bundle of degree one over the elliptic curve with first order poles at the marked points. interpretation 0.37 0.79 0.08 asserted 1.00
s6 The ESS is the monodromy independence condition on the complex structure for the linear systems related to the flat bundle. interpretation 0.78 0.73 0.25 asserted 1.00
s7 The case of four points for a special initial data is reduced to the Painlev{\'e} VI equation in the form of the Zhukovsky-Volterra gyrostat, proposed in our previous paper. result 0.94 0.86 0.31 asserted 1.00

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