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Connection between integrable systems and group actions
An integrable system can be defined as a symplectic manifold together with the maxiumum possible number of Poisson commuting functions on the manifold which are almost everywhere independent. By the ...
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How to deal with the singular reduction of the Hamiltonian n body problem?
I would like to consider the reduced Hamiltonian $n$ body problem, but am struggling with the angular momentum reduction seeing as the $SO(3)$ action is not free and the reduction is singular.
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Generalization of Rigid Body Motion to arbitrary (compact) Lie Groups
The classical dynamics of a rigid body in three dimensions may be described as the motion of a point on a configuration space given by the Lie group $SO(3)$, governed by Euler's equations for rigid ...
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