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New examples of conservative systems on S^2 possessing an integral cubic in momenta

dg-ga 2007-05-23 v1 Differential Geometry Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

It has been proved that on 2-dimensional orientable compact manifolds of genus g>1g>1 there is no integrable geodesic flow with an integral polynomial in momenta. There is a conjecture that all integrable geodesic flows on T2T^2 possess an integral quadratic in momenta. All geodesic flows on S2S^2 and T2T^2 possessing integrals linear and quadratic in momenta have been described by Kolokol'tsov, Babenko and Nekhoroshev. So far there has been known only one example of conservative system on S2S^2 possessing an integral cubic in momenta: the case of Goryachev-Chaplygin in the dynamics of a rigid body. The aim of this paper is to propose a new one-parameter family of examples of complete integrable conservative systems on S2S^2 possessing an integral cubic in momenta. We show that our family does not include the case of Goryachev-Chaplygin.

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@article{arxiv.dg-ga/9711005,
  title  = {New examples of conservative systems on S^2 possessing an integral cubic in momenta},
  author = {Elena N. Selivanova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:dg-ga/9711005},
  year   = {2007}
}

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10 pages, AMS-LaTeX