Topological classification of Liouville foliations for the Kovalevskaya integrable case on the Lie algebra so(3, 1)
Vladislav Kibkalo

TL;DR
This paper analyzes the topological structure of Liouville foliations in a Kovalevskaya integrable system on so(3,1), computing Fomenko-Zieschang invariants to classify the foliation topology.
Contribution
It provides the first topological classification of Liouville foliations for this specific integrable case on so(3,1) using Fomenko-Zieschang invariants.
Findings
Computed Fomenko-Zieschang invariants for the system
Classified the topology of Liouville foliations on regular isoenergy surfaces
Extended topological methods to a new Lie algebra setting
Abstract
In this paper, we study the topology of the Liouville foliation of an analogue of the Kovalevskaya integrable case on the Lie algebra so(3; 1). The Fomenko-Zieschang invariants (i.e., marked molecules) of a given foliation on each regular isoenergy surface were calculated.
| new | atom | higher | lower | arc’s endpoints | reg | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| V-XI | XII-XVI | |||||
| V-XI | XII-XVI | |||||
| IX-XI | XIII-XV | |||||
| IX-XI | XIII-XV | |||||
| V-XI | XV-XVI | |||||
| 4T | 2T | IX-XI | XIV-XV | |||
| 2T | 2T | - | XIII-XIV | |||
| 4T | 4T | - | XIII-XIV |
| Kovalevskaya–Sokolov case | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kovalevskaya case | |||||
| Points on the axis |
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Topological classification of Liouville foliations for the Kovalevskaya integrable case on the Lie algebra so(3, 1)
V. Kibkalo
Moscow State University,
Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Russia
Abstract
In this paper, we study the topology of the Liouville foliation of an analogue of the Kovalevskaya integrable case on the Lie algebra . The Fomenko-Zieschang invariants (i.e., marked molecules) of a given foliation on each regular isoenergy surface were calculated.
Bibliography: 17 titles.
keywords:
Hamiltonian system , Kovalevskaya integrable case , Lie algebra , Liouville foliation , Fomenko–Zieschang invariant
MSC:
[2010] 37J35, 70H33
††journal: Topology and its Applications
1 Introduction
In this paper we study topological properties of an integrable generalization of the classical Kovalevskaya system in rigid body dynamics found by I. V. Komarov in [9]. In that paper the classical Kovalevskaya top discovered by S. Kovalevskaya [12], [13], which is an integrable case of the Euler equations on the Lie algebra , was included in a one-parameter family of integrable Hamiltonian systems on the pencil of Lie algebras . The Kovalevskaya top has been studied by many authors from various points of view, in particular its topology was studied in detail by M. P. Kharlamov (see e.g. [4], [5]). An important question of topological analyses of an integrable system is the study of its Liouville foliation. The topology of Liouville foliation for the Kovalevskaya top was completely described in [2]. The same results for the Kovalevskaya case on were obtained in [11], [7] and [8].
In this paper we generalize the results of [2] to the analogue of the Kovaleskaya system on using the results of M. P. Kharlamov, P. E. Ryabov and A. Yu. Savushkin [6]. More precisely, we calculate all the marks of the rough molecules found in [6], thus obtaining all the Fomenko-Zieschang invariants of the system. All the necessary information about the Fomenko theory on the topological analysis of integrable Hamiltonian systems used in this paper can be found in [1].
2 Kovalevskaya case and its analogues
The classical Kovalevskaya integrable case in rigid body dynamics was included by I.V. Komarov [9] in a one-parameter family of dynamical systems on the pencil of Lie algebras . The Lie–Poisson brackets have the form
[TABLE]
where is the permutation symbol and . The cases and correspond to the Lie algebras and respectively.
These systems define integrable Hamiltonian systems with two degrees of freedom on every regular level surface of the Casimir functions of the brackets (1):
[TABLE]
The Hamiltonian and the first integral have the form
[TABLE]
[TABLE]
Here is an arbitrary constant. We can assume that and (see e.g. [11]).
We will derive some information about the Kovalevskaya case on from some other integrable systems on studied earlier. Essentially, we use a Poisson diffeomorphism between the open subsets of and described in [10] to identify the Kovalevskaya case on with the Kovalevskaya–Sokolov case on studied in [6]. This diffeomorphism from [10] can be described as follows.
Theorem 1** ([10]).**
Consider with the Lie-Poisson bracket for :
[TABLE]
The Casimir functions of this bracket are and . Fix , . Then in the new coordinates on , where
[TABLE]
the Poisson bracket (5) takes the form (1) of the Lie-Poisson bracket for . Thus
[TABLE]
is a Poisson diffeomorphism between and . A non-singular orbit of is identified with the orbit of .
The Hamiltonian (3) takes the form (8) of the Kovalevskaya–Sokolov case from [6] in the coordinates given by (6)
[TABLE]
for some new constants . As it was noted in [10] the Kovalevskaya-Sokolov case can be included in a wider family of integrable systems with Hamiltonian (9)
[TABLE]
after the following change of coordinates
[TABLE]
The family of Hamiltonians (9) is integrable for all values of parameters and for all values of Casimir functions and the parameter of the brackets (1) (see [10]). It includes the well-known Hamiltonians of the Kovalevskaya case (for ), the Kovalevskaya–Yehia case (for ) and the Sokolov case (for ). We will use some information about the Fomenko–Zieschang invariants for the Sokolov case from [14].
Remark 1**.**
Note that the first integral for the the family (8) for from [6] is differs from the first integral of the Sokolov case , written in [17] and [16], but they are related by the formula
[TABLE]
3 Bifurcation diagrams of the Kovalevskaya case on
Let us start by constructing the bifurcation diagrams for the Kovalevskaya case on . It can be done similarly to [11], where the case of was considered. Note that the majority of formulae from [11] still holds for . We deal separately with cases and .
3.1 Case of zero area integral ()
Bifurcation diagram of the Kovalevskaya integrable case is contained in the union of bifurcation curves on plane for given by the same formulae as in [11]. We say that two bifurcation diagrams are structurally different if they contain different set of arcs of these curves or have different bifurcations in the -preimage of these arcs.
Theorem 2**.**
A bifurcation diagram of the Kovalevskaya integrable case on () for the zero area integral (i.e. ) is determined by the value of the Casimir function . Diagrams for the following six intervals XII-XVII of the axis are shown in Fig. 1. Here .
[TABLE]
Let us denote and enumerate the arcs of by the same way as in [2], [7]. The letter in its notation is determined by the bifurcation curve and numbers should be different. All necessary information about the “new” arcs (i.e. arcs without analogues in the Kovalevskaya case on ) is contained in the Table 1. Let us call other arcs “old” arcs. We also specify the Liouville tori families and the number of tori in the preimage of a point above and under an arc.
The preimage of singular points of (i.e. points of intersection, tangency and return points of bifurcation curves) contains all critical points of with and circles that consist of degenerate critical points of .
Remark 2**.**
All critical points of except for the preimages of are nondegenerate, see Assertions 6-8 in [11].
We use notations from [11] for an “old” point and for a “new” one according to Table 2. In that table we also specify the rank, number of orbits in the preimage and the loop molecule of the singularity. We also include in Table 2 the notations of these points from [6] and classes from [11].
Nondegeneracy of critical points of can be easily checked as in [11].
Assertion 1**.**
All critical points of are nondegenerate in an orbit for , . Singular points are their -images in . Nondegenerate singularities of are represented in Table 2 as a product of two foliated 2-atoms (see [1]). We also specify their regions and intervals of for which a point belongs to .
Remark 3**.**
Loop molecules of singular points conicide with loop molecules of typical degenerate singularities of the : elliptic pitchfork () and hyperbolic pitchfork (), see [2].
Proof.
- The bifurcation diagram , i.e. the image of a critical set in an orbit , can be obtained from diagrams for orbits constructed in [6] by passing to the limit . This follows from the compactness of the following set for fixed and :
[TABLE]
In particular, if a sequence of singular points has a finite limit when , then .
-
For each value of it is easy to determine the number and type of singular points of rank [math], based on Assertions 15-17 of [11]. At the same time, their nondegeneracy was checked and the types were determined: center-center, center-saddle, and saddle-saddle.
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Since the critical set is closed, and every isoenergy regular manifold is compact, the critical points of rank in the preimage of an every non-singular point of bifurcation diagram form one circle or several circles.
The number of critical circles in the preimage of arc’s points of a diagram and the number of tori in areas of the plane are uniquely determined from the number and type of singular points of rank [math] in the preimages of the singular points of diagrams .
- The only remaining question is the type of bifurcation in the preimage of the arc . Since the singularity is of center-saddle type with two critical points of rank [math] and the singular fiber of the atom is connected, either or .
After a perturbation the atom splits into two atoms and every level between them must have three connected components. At the same time, the Kovalevskaya system has only one component at a such level. Thus . ∎
Corollary 1**.**
Therefore, a decomposition of the saddle-saddle singularity into two singularities described in [15] is realized in the Kovalevskaya system on .
3.2 Connections with the Kovalevskaya–Sokolov case
If , then the Kovalevskaya case can be identified with the Kovalevskaya-Sokolov case, for which the bifurcation diagrams were constructed in [6]. We briefly recall some facts and notations from [6]. There every orbit was characterised by pair of numbers . There , where and are the coordinate and the velocity vectors in for the Kovalevskaya–Sokolov integrable case. are are the following:
[TABLE]
The set is separated by five curves into 11 regions , see Fig. 3. Points from the same region have structurally equivalent bifurcation diagrams in the Kovalevskaya–Sokolov case on .
Separating curves and two intervals and of the curve except for the points of the axis (i.e. without the endpoints of intervals XII-XVII) on the plane for the Kovalevskaya case on are the images of curves under the Poisson map from Assertion 1 (we specify the correspondence between these curves in Table 3).
Regions I-XI of Kovalevskaya case on are the Poisson map image of regions 1-11 of Kovalevskaya-Sokolov case. Regions 1, 2, 3 and 4 for the latter case (i.e. regions I, II, III, IV for the former case respectively) have analogues in the classical Kovalevskaya case (). Let us enumerate other regions in the same way preserving the notation from [2].
4 Liouville analysis of Kovalevskaya case on Lie algebra
In this section we will calculate all the Fomenko-Zieschang invariants for every 3-dimensional regular isoenergy submanifold of the Kovalevskaya integrable case on . The list of rough molecules (see [1]) was constructed in [6]. It remains to find the marks of these molecules. We find them similarly to [7] by explecitly expressing the admissible coordinate system (see [1]) for every “new” arc of the bifurcation diagram through the uniquely defined -cycles of bifuractions.
We will use the information about some previously studied integrable cases, namely the classical Kovalevskaya case and the Sokolov integrable case studied in [16] and[14]. The first case is the limit of the Kovalevskaya case on when . And the second one is the limit of the Kovalevskaya–Sokolov case when (see [6]).
Lemma 4.1**.**
Regions 5, 10, 11 of the plane of parameters for the Kovalevskaya–Sokolov case are preserved after passing to limit .
Proof.
Parabolas and are the limits of the separating curves and respectively. Axes and are the limits of the curves and respectively. ∎
Some arcs that appear in both limiting cases have different notations. We will start with notations for the classical Kovalevskaya case from [2] and will explain correspondences for other arcs.
Theorem 3**.**
Admissible coordinate systems for “new” arcs are expressed via the uniquely defined -cycles as follows:
[TABLE]
[TABLE]
The location of these -cycles on the fundamental lattice of Liouville tori is shown in Fig. 4.
Remark 4**.**
The cycle on tori of the family (6) (i.e. on family I of tori in [14]) and on tori of the family (7) (i.e. on family V of tori in [14]) are expressed similarly by a choose of basis of the lattice.
Proof.
- If an arc of and the type of bifurcation do not change when passing to a limiting case, then the corresponding admissible coordinate system also remains the same.
Therefore the admissible coordinate systems for the arcs are known from [14].
- Singularities and are center-saddle singularities, thus and , i.e.
The symmetry maps tori of families (2), (3), (5), (6) one to another and preserves in the Sokolov case. It means that the direction of coincides on two critical circles of the atom for the arcs .
Thus and for the resulting foliations and after the perturbation of atoms and .
- Admissible coordinate systems for two arcs can be calculated by considering a saddle-saddle singularity of the type the same way as the singularity () was studied in [2].
∎
Remark 5**.**
Using Theorem 3 we can calculate numerical marks of the Fomenko–Zieschang invariants by well-known formulae, see [1]. (Molecules are directed by the acsending of the integral .)
We use notations from [6] for classes of regular foliations on isoenergy .
Theorem 4**.**
1. For all 25 classes of regular foliations on isoenergy in the Kovalevskaya system on are non-equivalent, i.e. have different Fomenko–Zieschang invariants:
10 classes coincide with classes -* respectively for the Kovalevskaya case on ,*
- 2.
3 classes coincide with classes of Sokolov case,
- 3.
6 classes can be obtained from classes of Sokolov case by a typical perturbation ,
- 4.
Fomenko-Zieschang invariants of classes are shown in Fig. 5.
2. In the case of every foliation belongs to one of classes - of Sokolov case, - of Kovalevskaya case or .
3. Foliations and belong to the classes and of Kovalevskaya integrable case on .
Remark 6**.**
Two foliations of the same Liouville class have the same structure of closures of almost all their trajectories.
5 Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (project no. 17-11-01303). Author is grateful to I. Kozlov for fruitful discussions and help.
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