Vector bundles on plane cubic curves and the classical Yang-Baxter equation

In this article, we develop a geometric method to construct solutions of the classical Yang-Baxter equation, attaching a family of classical r-matrices to the Weierstrass family of plane cubic curves and a pair of coprime positive integers. It turns out that all elliptic r-matrices arise in this way from smooth cubic curves. For the cuspidal cubic curve, we prove that the solutions obtained are rational and compute them explicitly. We also describe them in terms of Stolin's classification and prove that they are degenerations of the corresponding elliptic solutions.