Geodesic flow on three-dimensional ellipsoids with equal semi-axes

DOI10.1134/S1560354707020050zbMATH Open1229.37050arXivmath-ph/0611060MaRDI QIDQ655256FDOQ655256

Authors: Chris M. Davison, H. R. Dullin 

Publication date: 3 January 2012

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

Abstract: Following on from our previous study of the geodesic flow on three dimensional ellipsoid with equal middle semi-axes, here we study the remaining cases: Ellipsoids with two sets of equal semi-axes with $SO(2)imesSO(2)$ symmetry, ellipsoids with equal larger or smaller semi-axes with SO(2) symmetry, and ellipsoids with three semi-axes coinciding with SO(3) symmetry. All of these cases are Liouville-integrable, and reduction of the symmetry leads to singular reduced systems on lower-dimensional ellipsoids. The critical values of the energy-momentum maps and their singular fibers are completely classified. In the cases with SO(2) symmetry there are corank 1 degenerate critical points; all other critical points are non-degenreate. We show that in the case with $SO(2)imesSO(2)$ symmetry three global action variables exist and the image of the energy surface under the energy-momentum map is a convex polyhedron. The case with SO(3) symmetry is non-commutatively integrable, and we show that the fibers over regular points of the energy-casimir map are $T^2$ bundles over $S^2$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0611060

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zbMATH Keywords

symmetryintegrable systemsreductiongeodesic flowaction variables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests (37J35) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25) Completely integrable systems and methods of integration for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H06) Symmetries and conservation laws, reverse symmetries, invariant manifolds and their bifurcations, reduction for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H33)

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