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Hamiltonization and Integrability of the Chaplygin Sphere in R^n

Mathematical Physics 2010-06-21 v2 Differential Geometry math.MP Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems

Abstract

The paper studies a natural nn-dimensional generalization of the classical nonholonomic Chaplygin sphere problem. We prove that for a specific choice of the inertia operator, the restriction of the generalized problem onto zero value of the SO(n-1)-momentum mapping becomes an integrable Hamiltonian system after an appropriate time reparametrization.

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@article{arxiv.0902.4397,
  title  = {Hamiltonization and Integrability of the Chaplygin Sphere in R^n},
  author = {Bozidar Jovanovic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.4397},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

22 pages, Sections 1 and 5 are rewritten, to appear in Journal of Nonlinear Science