A technique to identify solvable dynamical systems, and a solvable generalization of the goldfish many-body problem

Abstract

A simple approach is discussed which associates to (solvable) matrix equations (solvable) dynamical systems, generally interpretable as (interesting) many-body problems, possibly involving auxiliary dependent variables in addition to those identifying the positions of the moving particles. We then focus on cases in which the auxiliary variables can be altogether eliminated, reobtaining thereby (via this unified approach) well-known solvable many-body problems, and moreover a (solvable) extension of the “goldfish” model.