Geometric Poisson brackets on Grassmannians and conformal spheres

TL;DR

This paper explores the relationship between geometric Poisson brackets on Grassmannians and conformal spheres, revealing how different frame choices lead to integrable KdV systems and connecting biHamiltonian structures across geometries.

Contribution

It demonstrates how conformal natural frames enable the restriction of Poisson brackets to differential invariants, linking Grassmannian brackets to non-commutative KdV structures.

Findings

Poisson brackets on the Moebius sphere do not restrict to Schwarzian invariants.

Grassmannian natural frames allow restriction to integrable KdV systems.

BiHamiltonian Grassmannian brackets are equivalent to non-commutative KdV structures.

Abstract

In this paper we relate the geometric Poisson brackets on the Grassmannian of 2-planes in R^4 and on the (2,2) Moebius sphere. We show that, when written in terms of local moving frames, the geometric Poisson bracket on the Moebius sphere does not restrict to the space of differential invariants of Schwarzian type. But when the concept of conformal natural frame is transported from the conformal sphere into the Grassmannian, and the Poisson bracket is written in terms of the Grassmannian natural frame, it restricts and results into either a decoupled system or a complexly coupled system of KdV equations, depending on the character of the invariants. We also show that the biHamiltonian Grassmannian geometric brackets are equivalent to the non-commutative KdV biHamiltonian structure. Both integrable systems and Hamiltonian structure can be brought back to the conformal sphere.