Discrete time Lagrangian mechanics on Lie groups, with an application to the Lagrange top

DOI10.1007/s002200050642zbMath0945.70010arXivsolv-int/9810018WikidataQ115388646 ScholiaQ115388646MaRDI QIDQ1809250

Alexander Ivanovich Bobenko, Yuri Borisovich Suris

Publication date: 16 December 1999

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/solv-int/9810018

zbMATH Keywords

Lagrange top; discrete time Lagrangian mechanics on Lie groups; discrete time Lax representations; Euler-Poinsot equations of motion; Kirchhoff's kinetic analogy; theory of Lagrangian reduction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

70G65: Symmetries, Lie group and Lie algebra methods for problems in mechanics

70H03: Lagrange's equations

70E05: Motion of the gyroscope

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