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Rolling balls over spheres in R^n

Mathematical Physics 2019-01-14 v2 Differential Geometry math.MP

Abstract

We study the rolling of the Chaplygin ball in Rn\mathbb R^n over a fixed (n1)(n-1)--dimensional sphere without slipping and without slipping and twisting. The problems can be naturally considered within a framework of appropriate modifications of the L+R and LR systems -- well known systems on Lie groups groups with an invariant measure. In the case of the rolling without slipping and twisting, we describe the SO(n)SO(n)-Chaplygin reduction to Sn1S^{n-1} and prove the Hamiltonization of the reduced system for a special inertia operator.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1804.03697,
  title  = {Rolling balls over spheres in R^n},
  author = {Bozidar Jovanovic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.03697},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

22 pages, figure is added, subsection 3.3 is rewritten, to appear in Nonlinearity

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