Routh’s procedure for non-Abelian symmetry groups

DOI10.1063/1.2885077MaRDI QIDQ3544667zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mike Crampin, Tom Mestdag

Publication date 8 December 2008

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.0528, http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-397183

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(n)-body problems (70F10) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Lagrange's equations (70H03)

Abstract: We extend Routh's reduction procedure to an arbitrary Lagrangian system (that is, one whose Lagrangian is not necessarily the difference of kinetic and potential energies) with a symmetry group which is not necessarily Abelian. To do so we analyse the restriction of the Euler-Lagrange field to a level set of momentum in velocity phase space. We present a new method of analysis based on the use of quasi-velocities. We discuss the reconstruction of solutions of the full Euler-Lagrange equations from those of the reduced equations.

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