Integrability of Hamiltonians with third- and fourth-degree polynomial potentials

Abstract

The weak-Painlevé property, as a criterion of integrability, is applied to the case of simple Hamiltonians describing the motion of a particle in two-dimensional polynomial potentials of degree three and four. This allows a complete identification of all the integrable cases of cubic potentials. In the case of quartic potentials, although our results are not exhaustive, some new integrable cases are discovered. In both cases the integrability is explicited by a direct calculation of the second integral of motion of the system.