Superintegrable systems on conformal surfaces

Abstract: We reconsider non-degenerate second order superintegrable systems in dimension two as geometric structures on conformal surfaces. This extends a formalism developed by the authors, initially introduced for (pseudo-)Riemannian manifolds of dimension three and higher. The governing equations of non-degenerate second order superintegrability in dimension two are structurally significantly different from those valid in higher dimensions. Specifically, we find conformally covariant structural equations, allowing one to classify the (conformal classes of) non-degenerate second order superintegrable systems on conformal surfaces geometrically. We then specialise to second order properly superintegrable systems on surfaces with a (pseudo-)Riemannian metric and obtain structural equations in accordance with the known equations for Euclidean space. We finally give a single explicit set of purely algebraic equations defining the variety parametrising such systems on all constant curvature surfaces.