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Solutions to the classical periodic and non-periodic Toda lattice type Hamiltonian systems are expressed in terms of an Iwasawa-type factorization of a “large” Lie group. The scattering of these systems is determined in the non-periodic case. For the generalized periodic Toda lattices a generalization of Kostant's formula is obtained using standard representations of affine Lie groups.
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Research partially supported by NSF Grant MCS 83-01582
Research partially supported by NSF Grant MCS 79-03153
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Goodman, R., Wallach, N.R. Classical and quantum mechanical systems of Toda-lattice type. Commun.Math. Phys. 94, 177–217 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01209301
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