Integrable Systems in the Realm of Algebraic Geometry [Paperback]

I. Introduction: II. Integrable Hamiltonian systems on affine Poisson varieties: 1. Introduction.- 2. Affine Poisson varieties and their morphisms.- 3. Integrable Hamiltonian systems and their morphisms.- 4. Integrable Hamiltonian systems on other spaces.- III. Integrable Hamiltonian systems and symmetric products of curves: 1. Introduction.- 2. The systems and their integrability.- 3. The geometry of the level manifolds.- IV. Interludium: the geometry of Abelian varieties 1. Introduction.- 2. Divisors and line bundles.- 3. Abelian varieties.- 4. Jacobi varieties.- 5. Abelian surfaces of type (1,4).- V. Algebraic completely integrable Hamiltonian systems: 1. Introduction.- 2. A.c.i. systems.- 3. Painlev analysis for a.c.i. systems.- 4. The linearization of two-dimensional a.c.i. systems.- 5. Lax equations.- VI. The Mumford systems 1. Introduction.- 2. Genesis.- 3. Multi-Hamiltonian structure and symmetries.- 4. The odd and the even Mumford systems.- 5. The general case.- VII. Two-dimensional a.c.i. systems and applications 1. Introduction.- 2. The genus two Mumford systems.- 3. Application: generalized Kummersurfaces.- 4. The Garnier potential.- 5. An integrable geodesic flow on SO(4).- 6. The Hnon-Heiles hierarchy.- 7. The Toda lattice.- References.- Index.Springer Book Archives