Stäckel and Eisenhart lifts, Haantjes geometry and gravitation

Abstract

We study lifts of integrable systems by means of generalized Stäckel geometry. To this end, we present the notion of Stäckel lift as a unified setting for the construction of new classes of integrable Hamiltonian systems of physical interest. The Stäckel lift extends the geometric framework underlying both the Riemannian and the Lorentzian-type classical Eisenhart lifts. Moreover, we prove that Hamiltonian systems constructed through momentum-dependent Stäckel matrices are naturally endowed with a non-trivial symplectic-Haantjes structure. We further illustrate applications to magnetic systems separable in cylindrical coordinates; we describe them within the Stäckel framework by means of modified Stäckel bases. Finally, we show that explicitly momentum-dependent lifting matrices generate Platonic-wave geometries with potential applications in modified gravity theories, or momentum-dependent metrics of generalized Hamilton geometries.