id: 05909789 dt: j an: 05909789 au: Lechtenfeld, Olaf; Schwerdtfeger, Konrad; Thürigen, Johannes ti: $N=4$ multi-particle mechanics, WDVV equation and roots. so: SIGMA, Symmetry Integrability Geom. Methods Appl. 7, Paper 023, 21 p., electronic only (2011). py: 2011 pu: Department of Applied Research, Institute of Mathematics of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv la: EN cc: ut: superconformal mechanics; Calogero models; WDVV equation; deformed root systems ci: li: doi:10.3842/SIGMA.2011.023 ab: Summary: We review the relation of $N=4$ superconformal multi-particle models on the real line to the WDVV equation and an associated linear equation for two prepotentials, $F$ and $U$. The superspace treatment gives another variant of the integrability problem, which we also reformulate as a search for closed flat Yang-Mills connections. Three- and four-particle solutions are presented. The covector ansatz turns the WDVV equation into an algebraic condition, for which we give a formulation in terms of partial isometries. Three ideas for classifying WDVV solutions are developed: ortho-polytopes, hypergraphs, and matroids. Various examples and counterexamples are displayed. rv: