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In mathematical physics, the Garnier integrable system, also known as the classical Gaudin model is a classical mechanical system discovered by René Garnier in 1919 by taking the 'Painlevé simplification' or 'autonomous limit' of the Schlesinger equations.[1][2] It is a classical analogue to the quantum Gaudin model due to Michel Gaudin[3] (similarly, the Schlesinger equations are a classical analogue to the Knizhnik–Zamolodchikov equations). The classical Gaudin models are integrable.
They are also a specific case of Hitchin integrable systems, when the algebraic curve that the theory is defined on is the Riemann sphere and the system is tamely ramified.