Superintegrability of geodesic motion on the sausage model

摘要

Reduction of the eta-deformed sigma model on AdS(5) x S-5 to the two-dimensional squashed sphere (S-2)eta can be viewed as a special case of the Fateev sausage model where the coupling constant v is imaginary. We show that geodesic motion in this model is described by a certain superintegrable mechanical system with four-dimensional phase space. This is done by means of explicitly constructing three integrals of motion which satisfy the sl(2) Poisson algebra relations, albeit being non-polynomial in momenta. Further, we find a canonical transformation which transforms the Hamiltonian of this mechanical system to the one describing the geodesic motion on the usual two-sphere. By inverting this transformation we map geodesics on this auxiliary two-sphere back to the sausage model.