English

Nonholonomic connections, time reparametrizations, and integrability of the rolling ball over a sphere

Mathematical Physics 2019-05-22 v2 Differential Geometry math.MP

Abstract

We study a time reparametrisation of the Newton type equations on Riemannian manifolds slightly modifying the Chaplygin multiplier method, allowing us to consider the Chaplygin method and the Maupertuis principle within a unified framework. As an example, the reduced nonholonomic problem of rolling without slipping and twisting of an nn-dimensional balanced ball over a fixed sphere is considered. For a special inertia operator (depending on nn parameters) we prove complete integrability when the radius of the ball is twice the radius of the sphere. In the case of SO(l)×SO(nl)SO(l)\times SO(n-l) symmetry, noncommutative integrability for any ratio of the radii is established.

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@article{arxiv.1805.10610,
  title  = {Nonholonomic connections, time reparametrizations, and integrability of the rolling ball over a sphere},
  author = {Borislav Gajic and Bozidar Jovanovic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.10610},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

18 pages, 2 figures, final version, to appear in Nonlinearity