Superintegrable anharmonic oscillators on N-dimensional curved spaces

Angel Ballesteros, Alberto Encisco, Francisco J. Herranz, Orlando Ragnisco

Published 2007-10-03, updated 2008-05-14Version 2

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.