Related papers: The Kowalewski's top revisited
This is an English translation and digitisation of Sophie Kowalevski's (also know as Sofya Kovalevskaya) paper on what is now known as the Kovalevskaya Top. The original paper was written in French and published in Vol 12 of Acta…
The Clebsch system is one of the few classical examples of rigid bodies whose equations of motion are known to be integrable in the sense of Liouville. The explicit solution of its equations of motion, however, is particularly hard, and it…
The article presents a compact review of the analytical results (2002-2009) in the study of the system describing the motion of a top in two constant fields. The Liouville integrability of this system under certain condition of the…
We review the separation of variables for the Kowalevski top and for its generalization to the algebra o(4). We notice that the corresponding separation equations allow an interpretation of the Kowalevski top as a B2 integrable lattice.…
This article has a twofold purpose. On the one hand I would like to draw attention to some nice exercises on the Kepler laws, due to Otto Laporte from 1970. Our discussion here has a more geometric flavour than the original analytic…
A new view on the Kowalevski top and the Kowalevski integration procedure is presented. For more than a century, the Kowalevski 1889 case, attracts full attention of a wide community as the highlight of the classical theory of integrable…
Several methods of time discretization are examined for integrable rigid body models, such as Euler, Lagrange, and Kowalevski tops. Problems of Lax-Moser pairs, conservation laws, and explicit solver algorithms are discussed. New…
The complete variables separation is given for one Hamiltonian system with two degrees of freedom arising in the motion of the Kowalevski type top in two constant fields.
Consider a rigid body having a fixed point in a superposition of two constant force fields (for example, gravitational and magnetic). Introducing the condition of Kowalevski type, O.I.Bogoyavlensky (1984) has found the first integral…
We discuss the polynomial bi-Hamiltonian structures for the Kowalevski top in special case of zero square integral. An explicit procedure to find variables of separation and separation relations is considered in detail.
In 1890 German mathematician and physicist W. Hess found new special case of integrability of Euler - Poisson equations of motion of a heavy rigid body with a fixed point. In 1892 P. A. Nekrasov proved that the solution of the problem of…
The goal of this note is to give the explicit solution of Euler-Frahm equations for the Manakov four-dimensional case by elementary means. For this, we use some results from the original papers by Schottky [Sch 1891], Koetter [Koe 1892],…
The book contains the results obtained by the author in 1975-1982 and presents new constructive methods of the topological analysis of integrable systems having non-linear integrals in involution. The phase topology of the classical…
We determine the general form of the potential of the problem of motion of a rigid body about a fixed point, which allows the angular velocity to remain permanently in a principal plane of inertia of the body. Explicit solution of the…
This is a somewhat expanded form of a four hours course given, with small variations, first at the educational workshop Probabilistic methods in Geometry, Bedlewo, Poland, July 6-12, 2008 and a few weeks later at the Summer school on…
In the problem of motion of the Kowalevski top on two constant fields (the A.G.Reyman - M.A.Semenov-Tian-Shansky case) the type of all critical points of the momentum map is calculated.
The purpose of this publication is to derive and discuss equations of motion of affinely rigid (homogeneously deformable) body moving in Euclidean space of general dimension $n$. Our aim is to present some analytical methods and to discuss…
The Euler top describes a free rotation of a rigid body about its center of mass and provides an important example of a completely integrable system. A salient feature of its first integrals is that, up to a reparametrization of time, they…
The main purpose of this note is to prove an upper bound on the number of lattice points of a centrally symmetric convex body in terms of the successive minima of the body. This bound improves on former bounds and narrows the gap towards a…
In this paper we study topological properties of an integrable case for Euler's equations on the Lie algebra $\textrm{so}(4)$, which can be regarded as an analogue of the classical Kovalevskaya case in rigid body dynamics. In particular,…