Geodesics on the ellipsoid and monodromy

DOI10.1016/j.geomphys.2007.07.006zbMath1148.53026arXivmath-ph/0609073OpenAlexW1966670646MaRDI QIDQ2475444

Chris M. Davison, Holger R. Dullin, Alexei V. Bolsinov

Publication date: 11 March 2008

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0609073

zbMATH Keywords

monodromyintegrable systemsgeodesic flowellipsoidaction variables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) Constrained dynamics, Dirac's theory of constraints (70H45) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25)

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Geodesics on Ellipsoids ⋮ Uncovering fractional monodromy ⋮ The Jacobi-Rosochatius problem on an ellipsoid: the Lax representations and billiards ⋮ The degenerate C. Neumann system. I: Symmetry reduction and convexity ⋮ Integrable systems on a sphere, an ellipsoid and a hyperboloid ⋮ Geodesic flow on an intersection of several confocal quadrics in $\mathbb{R}^n$ ⋮ Regular and irregular geodesics on spherical harmonic surfaces ⋮ Two Integrable Cases of a Ball Rolling over a Sphere in $\mathbb{R}^n$ ⋮ The conjugate locus in convex 3-manifolds ⋮ Topological atlas of the Kovalevskaya top in a double field ⋮ Geodesic flow on three-dimensional ellipsoids with equal semi-axes ⋮ Nonholonomic connections, time reparametrizations, and integrability of the rolling ball over a sphere ⋮ The Picard–Fuchs equations for complete hyperelliptic integrals of even order curves, and the actions of the generalized Neumann system ⋮ The number of connected components in the preimage of a regular value of the momentum mapping for the geodesic flow on ellipsoid

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