Preface |
Introduction / 1: |
The Classical Water Molecule and the Ozone Molecule / 1.1: |
Hamiltonian Formulation / 1.2: |
Geometry, Symmetry, and Reduction / 1.3: |
Stability / 1.4: |
Geometric Phases / 1.5: |
The Rotation Group and the Poincare Sphere / 1.6: |
A Crash Course in Geometric Mechanics / 2: |
Symplectic and Poisson Manifolds / 2.1: |
The Flow of a Hamiltonian Vector Field / 2.2: |
Cotangent Bundles / 2.3: |
Lagrangian Mechanics / 2.4: |
Lie-Poisson Structures / 2.5: |
The Rigid Body / 2.6: |
Momentum Maps / 2.7: |
Reduction / 2.8: |
Singularities and Symmetry / 2.9: |
A Particle in a Magnetic Field / 2.10: |
Cotangent Bundle Reduction / 3: |
Mechanical G-systems / 3.1: |
The Classical Water Molecule / 3.2: |
The Mechanical Connection / 3.3: |
The Geometry and Dynamics of Cotangent Bundle Reduction / 3.4: |
Examples / 3.5: |
Lagrangian Reduction / 3.6: |
Coupling to a Lie group / 3.7: |
Relative Equilibria / 4: |
Relative Equilibria on Symplectic Manifolds / 4.1: |
Cotangent Relative Equilibria / 4.2: |
The Energy-Momentum Method / 4.3: |
The General Technique / 5.1: |
Example: The Rigid Body / 5.2: |
Block Diagonalization / 5.3: |
The Normal Form for the Symplectic Structure / 5.4: |
Stability of Relative Equilibria for the Double Spherical Pendulum / 5.5: |
A Simple Example / 6: |
Reconstruction / 6.2: |
Cotangent Bundle Phases--a Special Case / 6.3: |
Cotangent Bundles--General Case / 6.4: |
Rigid Body Phases / 6.5: |
Moving Systems / 6.6: |
The Bead on the Rotating Hoop / 6.7: |
Stabilization and Control / 7: |
The Rigid Body with Internal Rotors / 7.1: |
The Hamiltonian Structure with Feedback Controls / 7.2: |
Feedback Stabilization of a Rigid Body with a Single Rotor / 7.3: |
Phase Shifts / 7.4: |
The Kaluza-Klein Description of Charged Particles / 7.5: |
Optimal Control and Yang-Mills Particles / 7.6: |
Discrete reduction / 8: |
Fixed Point Sets and Discrete Reduction / 8.1: |
Sub-Block Diagonalization with Discrete Symmetry / 8.2: |
Discrete Reduction of Dual Pairs / 8.5: |
Mechanical Integrators / 9: |
Definitions and Examples / 9.1: |
Limitations on Mechanical Integrators / 9.2: |
Symplectic Integrators and Generating Functions / 9.3: |
Symmetric Symplectic Algorithms Conserve J / 9.4: |
Energy-Momentum Algorithms / 9.5: |
The Lie-Poisson Hamilton-Jacobi Equation / 9.6: |
Example: The Free Rigid Body / 9.7: |
Variational Considerations / 9.8: |
Hamiltonian Bifurcation / 10: |
Some Introductory Examples / 10.1: |
The Role of Symmetry / 10.2: |
The One to One Resonance and Dual Pairs / 10.3: |
Bifurcations in the Double Spherical Pendulum / 10.4: |
Continuous Symmetry Groups and Solution Space Singularities / 10.5: |
The Poincare-Melnikov Method / 10.6: |
The Role of Dissipation / 10.7: |
References |
Index |
Preface |
Introduction / 1: |
The Classical Water Molecule and the Ozone Molecule / 1.1: |