Characteristic class of a bundle and the existence of a global Routh function

DOI10.1007/BF01135548MaRDI QIDQ1243933zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. P. Kharlamov

Publication date 1977

Published in Functional Analysis and Its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.1396

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40)

Abstract: The possibility of the global Lagrangian reduction of a mechanical system with symmetry is shown to be connected with the characteristic class of a principal fiber bundle of the configuration space over the factor manifold. It is proved that the reduced system is globally Lagrangian if and only if the product of the momentum constant with this characteristic class is zero. In the case of a rigid body rotating about a fixed point in an axially symmetric force field the bundle over a 2-sphere is non-trivial, therefore the reduced system admits a global Routh function if and only if the momentum constant is zero.

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• Differential equations in a Banach space
• Routh reduction of Palatini gravity in vacuum
• Irreducible representations of Lie superalgebras of vector fields and invariant differential operators

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