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The phenomenon of a topological monodromy in integrable Hamiltonian and nonholonomic systems is discussed. An efficient method for computing and visualizing the monodromy is developed. The comparative analysis of the topological monodromy…
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Hamilton's hodograph method geometrizes, in a simple and very elegant way, in velocity space, the full dynamics of classical particles in $1/r$ potentials. States of given energy and angular momentum are represented by circular hodographs…
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