Global Aspects of Classical Integrable Systems

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Birkhäuser, 1 juin 2015 - 477 pages
This book gives a uniquely complete description of the geometry of the energy momentum mapping of five classical integrable systems: the 2-dimensional harmonic oscillator, the geodesic flow on the 3-sphere, the Euler top, the spherical pendulum and the Lagrange top. It presents for the first time in book form a general theory of symmetry reduction which allows one to reduce the symmetries in the spherical pendulum and the Lagrange top. Also the monodromy obstruction to the existence of global action angle coordinates is calculated for the spherical pendulum and the Lagrange top. The book addresses professional mathematicians and graduate students and can be used as a textbook on advanced classical mechanics or global analysis.
 

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1 The harmonic oscillator
1
2 Geodesics on S3
31
3 The Euler Top
79
4 The spherical pendulum
139
5 The Lagrange top
192
Part II Theory
281
6 Fundamental concepts
281
7 Systems with symmetry
305
8 Ehresmann connections
373
9 Action angle coordinates
384
10 Monodromy
391
11 Basic Morse theory
423
Notes
431
Acknowledgments
464
Index
465
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