The Appell hypergeometric functions and classical separable mechanical systems

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/35/9/311MaRDI QIDQ4545305zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Vladimir Dragović

Publication date 15 August 2002

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0008009

zbMATH Keywords

ellipsoidgeodesicsintegrable billiard systemsJacobi problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Appell, Horn and Lauricella functions (33C65) Collision of rigid or pseudo-rigid bodies (70F35)

Abstract: A relationship between two old mathematical subjects is observed: the theory of hypergeometric functions and the separability in classical mechanics. Separable potential perturbations of the integrable billiard systems and the Jacobi problem for geodesics on an ellipsoid are expressed through the Appell hypergeometric functions $F_4$ of two variables. Even when the number of degrees of freedom increases, if an ellipsoid is symmetric, the number of variables in the hypergeometric functions does not. Wider classes of separable potentials are given by the obtained new formulae automaticaly.

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