Geodesic flows on real forms of complex semi-simple Lie groups of rigid body type (Q2214918)

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    Geodesic flows on real forms of complex semi-simple Lie groups of rigid body type
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7283932

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      Geodesic flows on real forms of complex semi-simple Lie groups of rigid body type (English)
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      10 December 2020
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      Free rigid body dynamics has been generalized to semi-simple Lie groups in [\textit{A. S. Mishchenko} and \textit{A. T. Fomenko}, Math. USSR, Izv. 12, 371--389 (1978; Zbl 0405.58031)] and [\textit{A. S. Mishchenko} and \textit{A. T. Fomenko}, Tr. Semin. Vektorn. Tenzorn. Anal. 19, 3--94 (1979; Zbl 0452.58015)]. The motions of the generalized free rigid bodies can be formulated as geodesic flows for certain left-invariant metrics on semi-simple Lie groups, called of rigid body type. The Williamson type of an isolated equilibrium point for a Hamiltonian system is a triple giving the numbers of elliptic, hyperbolic, and focus-focus components. The main result of the article under review characterizes the Williamson types of the isolated relative equilibria on generic adjoint orbits in terms of the root system of the complexified Lie-algebra.
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      geodesic flow
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      real semi-simple Lie group
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      free rigid body
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      Cartan subalgebra
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      bi-Hamiltonian structure
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      integrable system
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      equilibrium
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      Williamson type
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      Lyapunov stability
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