Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (SIGMA)

SIGMA 3 (2007), 032, 13 pages      math-ph/0611045      https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2007.032
Contribution to the Vadim Kuznetsov Memorial Issue

A Note on the Rotationally Symmetric SO(4) Euler Rigid Body

Gregorio Falqui
Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni, Università di Milano - Bicocca, via R. Cozzi, 53, 20125 Milano, Italy

Received November 15, 2006, in final form February 02, 2007; Published online February 26, 2007

Abstract
We consider an SO(4) Euler rigid body with two 'inertia momenta' coinciding. We study it from the point of view of bihamiltonian geometry. We show how to algebraically integrate it by means of the method of separation of variables.

Key words: Euler top; separation of variables; bihamiltonian manifolds.

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