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Published 1990 | Published
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The Energy-Momentum Method

Abstract

This paper develops the energy momentum methodJor studying stability and bifurcation of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian systems with symmetry. The method was specifically designed to deal with the stability of rotating structures. The relation with the energy-Casimir method is given and the energy-momentum method is shown to be more general. Stability of rigid body motion is given 10 illustrate the method. Some discussion of its applicability to general rotating systems and block diagonalization is also given.

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© 1990, J.E. MARSDEN - Department of Mathematics. University of California. Berkeley. CA 94720. Research partially supported by DOE contract DE-AT03-88ER-12097 and MSI at Cornell University. J.C. SIMO - Division of Applied Mechanics. Stanford University, Stanford. CA 94305. Research partially supported by AFOSR contract 2-DJA-544 and 2-DJA-771. Thanks are due to Bob Grossman, Tim Healey, P.S. Krishnaprasad, Debra Lewis, Jiang-Hua Lu, George Patrick, Tom Posbergh and Tudor Ratiu for their helpful comments and interaction.

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