A note on geodesics on an ellipsoid (Q1577154)

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A note on geodesics on an ellipsoid
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    A note on geodesics on an ellipsoid (English)
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    30 August 2000
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    The author demonstrates the integrability of geodesic flows on ellipsoids by establishing their equivalence to a subsystem of integrable Euler equations on Lie algebras of the groups of motions of Euclidean spaces (the Clebsch case). The comment reports that it is established formerly by Kozlov that a geodesic flow on a two-dimensional ellipsoid is trajectory-equivalent to the restriction of the Clebsch system onto the Lie algebra of the group of motions of the three-space on a singular orbit diffeomorphic to the cotangent bundle to the two-sphere. The authors demonstrate in terms of Perelomov's article a generalization of this equivalence for geodesic flows on high-dimensional ellipsoids.
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    geodesic flows on ellipsoids
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    integrable Euler equations
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    Lie algebras
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    groups of motions of Euclidean spaces
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    Clebsch case
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    integrability
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