“…-Unlike the toric case, where the singularities are all elliptic non-degenerate (in the sense of Vey-Eliasson; see, for example, [8,[10][11][12][13] for non-degenerate singularities), the Gelfand-Cetlin system admits many degenerate singularities. -The degenerate singular fibres of the Gelfand-Cetlin system are very peculiar in the sense that they are all smooth isotropic submanifolds, as will be shown in this paper (see also Cho et al [14], who obtained the same result by different methods), while many degenerate (and non-degenerate) singular fibres of other integrable Hamiltonian systems are singular varieties (see, for example, [7,[15][16][17] for various results about degenerate singularities). -It turns out that the Gelfand-Cetlin systems can be obtained by the method of toric degenerations; see Nishinou et al [18].…”