Real analytic convex surfaces with positive topological entropy and rigid body dynamics (Q1313502)

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Real analytic convex surfaces with positive topological entropy and rigid body dynamics
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    Real analytic convex surfaces with positive topological entropy and rigid body dynamics (English)
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    14 July 1994
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    The author exhibits explicit real analytic metrics on \(S^ 2\) and \(\mathbb{R} P^ 2\) with positive curvature and positive topological entropy. These metrics are constructed from the Euler Poisson flows which describe the motion of a rigid body on axially symmetric face fields. It is shown that for specific force fields the flow possesses a horseshoe and hence positive topological entropy. Via the Maupertuis principle these flows give rise to convex metrics on \(S^ 2\) with positive topological entropy.
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    rigid body dynamics
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    topological entropy
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    Euler Poisson flows
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    convex metrics
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