Hamiltonization of Nonholonomic Systems in the Neighborhood of Invariant Manifolds
2011, Volume 16, Number 5, pp. 443-464
Author(s): Bolsinov A. V., Borisov A. V., Mamaev I. S.
Author(s): Bolsinov A. V., Borisov A. V., Mamaev I. S.
The problem of Hamiltonization of nonholonomic systems, both integrable and non-integrable, is considered. This question is important in the qualitative analysis of such systems and it enables one to determine possible dynamical effects. The first part of the paper is devoted to representing integrable systems in a conformally Hamiltonian form. In the second part, the existence of a conformally Hamiltonian representation in a neighborhood of a periodic solution is proved for an arbitrary (including integrable) system preserving an invariant measure. Throughout the paper, general constructions are illustrated by examples in nonholonomic mechanics.
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