A note on geodesics on an ellipsoid

DOI10.1070/RD2000V005N01ABEH000125MaRDI QIDQ1577154zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors A. Perelomov

Publication date 30 August 2000

Published in Regular and Chaotic Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0203032

zbMATH Keywords

Clebsch casegeodesic flows on ellipsoidsgroups of motions of Euclidean spacesintegrabilityintegrable Euler equationsLie algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Dynamical systems in classical and celestial mechanics (37N05) Integrable cases of motion in rigid body dynamics (70E40) Symmetries, Lie group and Lie algebra methods for problems in mechanics (70G65) Completely integrable systems and methods of integration for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H06)

Abstract: It is shown that the Jacobi problem of geodesics on ellipsoid may be reduced to more simple one, namely to the special case of the Clebsch problem. The last one may be solved directly by using Weber's approach in terms of multi-dimensional theta functions

Review text

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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