Integrable Discretization and Deformation of the Nonholonomic Chaplygin Ball

    2017, Volume 22, Number 4, pp.  353-367

    Author(s): Tsiganov A. V.

    The rolling of a dynamically balanced ball on a horizontal rough table without slipping was described by Chaplygin using Abel quadratures. We discuss integrable discretizations and deformations of this nonholonomic system using the same Abel quadratures. As a by-product one gets a new geodesic flow on the unit two-dimensional sphere whose additional integrals of motion are polynomials in the momenta of fourth order.
    Keywords: nonholonomic systems, Abel quadratures, arithmetic of divisors
    Citation: Tsiganov A. V., Integrable Discretization and Deformation of the Nonholonomic Chaplygin Ball, Regular and Chaotic Dynamics, 2017, Volume 22, Number 4, pp. 353-367



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