Nonlinear stability of relative equilibria and isomorphic vector fields

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2018.021MaRDI QIDQ1747878zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Stefan Klajbor-Goderich

Publication date 27 April 2018

Published in SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.02828

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zbMATH Keywords

equivariant dynamicsHamiltonian systemorbital stabilityrelative equilibria

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamics induced by flows and semiflows (37C10) Stability theory for smooth dynamical systems (37C75) Stability problems for finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J25) Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) Vector fields, frame fields in differential topology (57R25)

Abstract: We present applications of the notion of isomorphic vector fields to the study of nonlinear stability of relative equilibria. Isomorphic vector fields were introduced by Hepworth [Theory Appl. Categ. 22 (2009), 542-587] in his study of vector fields on differentiable stacks. Here we argue in favor of the usefulness of replacing an equivariant vector field by an isomorphic one to study nonlinear stability of relative equilibria. In particular, we use this idea to obtain a criterion for nonlinear stability. As an application, we offer an alternative proof of Montaldi and Rodr'iguez-Olmos's criterion [arXiv:1509.04961] for stability of Hamiltonian relative equilibria.

Review text

An approach to determine the stability of relative equilibria in terms of the notion of isomorphic vector fields introduced by \textit{R. Hepworth} [Theory Appl. Categ. 22, 542--587 (2009; Zbl 1206.37009)] is presented in this article. The author proves that the nonlinear stability of the relative equilibrium can be determined by checking the nonlinear stability of the corresponding equilibrium of the projected vector field. Such an approach reduces the problem to a well-studied case of equilibria on a vector space with a representation of a compact Lie group. Hamiltonian relative equilibria are an important case for which one can have nonlinear stability but not linear stability. As an application of the criterion for nonlinear stability, an alternative proof of \textit{J. Montaldi} and \textit{M. Rodríguez-Olmos} result for the stability of the relative equilibria of the Hamiltonian [``Hamiltonian relative equilibria with continuous isotropy, \url{arXiv:1509.04961}] is given. The Marle-Guillemin-Sternberg normal form [\textit{V. Guillemin} and \textit{S. Sternberg}, Math. Phys. Stud. 6, 161--175 (1984; Zbl 0548.58011); \textit{C.-M. Marle}, Rend. Semin. Mat., Torino 43, 227--251 (1985; Zbl 0599.53032)] is used in this proof. The reduction of the general case to the normal form computation is shown.

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