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PURE MATHEMATICS SEMINAR ON TUESDAY THE 24TH MAY 2005

Published on the 17 May 2005

Superintegrable Systems

  • Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Kress (UNSW)
  • Date: Tuesday, 24 May 2005
  • Time: 2:00 pm
  • Venue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSW


A classical Hamiltonian system with n degrees of freedom is said to be Louiville integrable if it possesses n functions of the position and momenta that are constant along trajactories. A superintegrable system is one having more than n constants of the motion and in this case, properties of the system can be deduced by purely algebraic means. Several classes of superintegrable systems are known and contain, as specific instances, the Kepler-Coulomb and harmonic oscillator systems. This talk will give an overview of the topic of superintegrable systems.


Enquiries to Catherine Greenhill, 9385 7105, csg@unsw.edu.au