Holonomy-reduced dynamics of triatomic molecules

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/44/16/165202zbMATH Open1385.70038arXiv1009.0641OpenAlexW1699963864MaRDI QIDQ2998055FDOQ2998055

Authors: Ünver Çiftçi, Holger Waalkens 

Publication date: 18 May 2011

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Whereas it is easy to reduce the translational symmetry of a molecular system by using, e.g., Jacobi coordinates the situation is much more involved for the rotational symmetry. In this paper we address the latter problem using {it holonomy reduction}. We suggest that the configuration space may be considered as the reduced holonomy bundle with a connection induced by the mechanical connection. Using the fact that for the special case of the three-body problem, the holonomy group is SO(2) (as opposed to SO(3) like in systems with more than three bodies) we obtain a holonomy reduced configuration space of topology $mathbf{R}_{+}^{3}imes{S}^1$. The dynamics then takes place on the cotangent bundle over the holonomy reduced configuration space. On this phase space there is an $S^1$ symmetry action coming from the conserved reduced angular momentum which can be reduced using the standard symplectic reduction method. Using a theorem by Arnold it follows that the resulting symmetry reduced phase space is again a natural mechanical phase space, i.e. a cotangent bundle. This is different from what is obtained from the usual approach where symplectic reduction is used from the outset. This difference is discussed in some detail, and a connection between the reduced dynamics of a triatomic molecule and the motion of a charged particle in a magnetic field is established.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.0641

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zbMATH Keywords

rotational symmetryholonomy reduction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetries and conservation laws, reverse symmetries, invariant manifolds and their bifurcations, reduction for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H33) Molecular physics (81V55) Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20) Symmetries, Lie group and Lie algebra methods for problems in mechanics (70G65)

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• Cotangent bundle reduction and Poincaré-Birkhoff normal forms
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• Symplectic reduction, geometric phase, and internal dynamics in three-body molecular dynamics.

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