Physics Asked by marmistrz on August 18, 2021
In Marsden, Ratiu – Introduction To Mechanics And Symmetry there is a certain focus on reducing cotangent bundles of Lie groups. More precisely, if $G$ is a Lie group, then $T^*G$ is naturally a symplectic manifold. Then,
However, apart from the configuration space $G = SO(3)$ which is the configuration space for the rigid body, all the examples provided by Marsden and Ratiu are infinite-dimensional. I failed to come up with any other non-trivial finite-dimensional example, i.e. $mathbb{R}^n times (SO(3))^k$ doesn’t count.
Are there any other naturally occurring mechanical systems, whose configuration space is a Lie group $G$ and that the Hamiltonian $Hcolon,T^*G to mathbb{R}$ is $G$-invariant with respect to the natural action of $G$ on $T^*G$?
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