Nonlinear Sciences – Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems
Scientific paper
2001-05-07
J. Nonlin. Math. Phys.,8 (2001), no. 4, 534-559
Nonlinear Sciences
Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems
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Scientific paper
A heavy top with a fixed point and a rigid body in an ideal fluid are important examples of Hamiltonian systems on a dual to the semidirect product Lie algebra $e(n)=so(n)\ltimes\mathbb R^n$. We give a Lagrangian derivation of the corresponding equations of motion, and introduce discrete time analogs of two integrable cases of these systems: the Lagrange top and the Clebsch case, respectively. The construction of discretizations is based on the discrete time Lagrangian mechanics on Lie groups, accompanied by the discrete time Lagrangian reduction. The resulting explicit maps on $e^*(n)$ are Poisson with respect to the Lie--Poisson bracket, and are also completely integrable. Lax representations of these maps are also found.
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