Generalization of solutions of the Jacobi PDEs associated to time reparametrizations of Poisson systems

The determination of solutions of the Jacobi partial differential equations (PDEs) for finite-dimensional Poisson systems is considered. In particular, a novel procedure for the construction of solution families is developed. Such a procedure is based on the use of time reparametrizations preserving the existence of a Poisson structure. As a result, a method which is valid for arbitrary values of the dimension and the rank of the Poisson structure under consideration is obtained. In this article two main families of time reparametrizations of this kind are characterized. In addition, these results lead to a novel application which is also developed, namely the global and constructive determination of the Darboux canonical form for Poisson systems of arbitrary dimension and rank two, thus improving the local result provided by Darboux’ theorem for such a case. © 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved