Hamiltonian Evolutions of Twisted Polygons in Rp

In this paper we find a discrete moving frame and their associated invariants along projective polygons in RP, and we use them to describe invariant evolutions of projective N -gons. We then apply a reduction process to obtain a natural Hamiltonian structure on the space of projective invariants for polygons, establishing a close relationship between the projective N -gon invariant evolutions and the Hamiltonian evolutions on the invariants of the flow. We prove that any Hamiltonian evolution is induced on invariants by an invariant evolution of N -gons what we call a projective realization and both evolutions are connected explicitly in a very simple way. Finally, we provide a completely integrable evolution (the Boussinesq lattice related to the lattice W3-algebra), its projective realization in RP and its Hamiltonian pencil. We generalize both structures to n-dimensions and we prove that they are Poisson, defining explicitly the n-dimensional generalization of the planar evolution (a discretization of the Wn-algebra). We prove that the generalization is completely integrable, and we also give its projective realization, which turns out to be very simple.