Bifurcation of relative equilibria in mechanical systems with symmetry

Details Bifurcation of relative equilibria in mechanical systems with symmetry Bifurcation of relative equilibria in mechanical systems with symmetry

1999-12-30

arxiv.org/abs/math/9912232v1

Mathematics

Differential Geometry

32 pages

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The relative equilibria of a symmetric Hamiltonian dynamical system are the critical points of the so-called augmented Hamiltonian. The underlying geometric structure of the system is used to decompose the critical point equations and construct a collection of implicitly defined functions and reduced equations describing the set of relative equilibria in a neighborhood of a given relative equilibrium. The structure of the reduced equations is studied in a few relevant situations. In particular, a persistence result of Lerman and Singer [LS98] is generalized to the framework of Abelian proper actions. Also, a Hamiltonian version of the Equivariant Branching Lemma and a study of bifurcations with maximal isotropy are presented. An elementary example is presented to illustrate the use of this approach.

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