Superintegrable anharmonic oscillators on N-dimensional curved spaces

TL;DR

This paper explores superintegrability of anharmonic oscillators on N-dimensional curved spaces using algebraic methods, introducing new quasi-maximally superintegrable models on spaces with constant and non-constant curvature.

Contribution

It introduces a new algebraic framework for defining and analyzing quasi-maximally superintegrable anharmonic oscillators on curved spaces, including non-constant curvature cases.

Findings

Established superintegrability of harmonic oscillators on constant curvature spaces.

Constructed new quasi-maximally superintegrable anharmonic perturbations.

Extended the framework to spaces with non-constant curvature, including Darboux spaces.

Abstract

The maximal superintegrability of the intrinsic harmonic oscillator potential on N-dimensional spaces with constant curvature is revisited from the point of view of sl(2)-Poisson coalgebra symmetry. It is shown how this algebraic approach leads to a straightforward definition of a new large family of quasi-maximally superintegrable perturbations of the intrinsic oscillator on such spaces. Moreover, the generalization of this construction to those N-dimensional spaces with non-constant curvature that are endowed with sl(2)-coalgebra symmetry is presented. As the first examples of the latter class of systems, both the oscillator potential on an N-dimensional Darboux space as well as several families of its quasi-maximally superintegrable anharmonic perturbations are explicitly constructed.