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Geodesic flow on three dimensional ellipsoids with equal semi-axes

数学物理 2013-06-25 v1 math.MP

摘要

Following on from our previous study of the geodesic flow on three dimensional ellipsoid with equal middle semi-axes, here we study the remaining cases: Ellipsoids with two sets of equal semi-axes with SO(2)×SO(2)SO(2) \times SO(2) symmetry, ellipsoids with equal larger or smaller semi-axes with SO(2) symmetry, and ellipsoids with three semi-axes coinciding with SO(3) symmetry. All of these cases are Liouville-integrable, and reduction of the symmetry leads to singular reduced systems on lower-dimensional ellipsoids. The critical values of the energy-momentum maps and their singular fibers are completely classified. In the cases with SO(2) symmetry there are corank 1 degenerate critical points; all other critical points are non-degenreate. We show that in the case with SO(2)×SO(2)SO(2) \times SO(2) symmetry three global action variables exist and the image of the energy surface under the energy-momentum map is a convex polyhedron. The case with SO(3) symmetry is non-commutatively integrable, and we show that the fibers over regular points of the energy-casimir map are T2T^2 bundles over S2S^2.

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@article{arxiv.math-ph/0611060,
  title  = {Geodesic flow on three dimensional ellipsoids with equal semi-axes},
  author = {Chris M. Davison and Holger R. Dullin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0611060},
  year   = {2013}
}

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34 pages, 10 figures