The problem of rolling a nonholonomic bundle of two bodies is considered: a spherical shell with a rigid body rotating along the axis of symmetry, on which rotors spinning relative to this body are fastened. This problem can be regarded as a distant generalization of the Chaplygin ball problem. The reduced system is studied by analyzing Poincaré maps constructed in Andoyer – Deprit variables. A classification

The stability of linear mechanical systems with finite numbers of degrees of freedom subjected to potential and non-conservative positional forces is considered. The positive semi-definiteness of the potential energy is assumed. Three new stability criteria which are in a simple way related to the properties of the system matrices are derived. These criteria improve previously obtained results of the

A generalization of the classical Kapitza pendulum is considered: an inverted planar mathematical pendulum with a vertically vibrating pivot point in a time-periodic horizontal force field. We study the existence of forced oscillations in the system. It is shown that there always exists a periodic solution along which the rod of the pendulum never becomes horizontal, i. e., the pendulum never falls

This paper numerically addresses optical dromions and domain walls that are monitored by Kundu – Mukherjee – Naskar equation. The Kundu – Mukherjee – Naskar equation is considered because this model describes the propagation of soliton dynamics in optical fiber communication system. The scheme employed in this work is Laplace – Adomian decomposition type. The accuracy of the scheme is \(O(10^{-8})\)

The behavior of specific dispersive waves in a new \((3+1)\)-dimensional Hirota bilinear (3D-HB) equation is studied. A Bäcklund transformation and a Hirota bilinear form of the model are first extracted from the truncated Painlevé expansion. Through a series of mathematical analyses, it is then revealed that the new 3D-HB equation possesses a series of rational-type solutions. The interaction of lump-type

We prove that hyperbolic billiards constructed by Bussolari and Lenci are Bernoulli systems. These billiards cannot be studied by existing approaches to analysis of billiards that have some focusing boundary components, which require the diameter of the billiard table to be of the same order as the largest curvature radius along the focusing component. Our proof employs a local ergodic theorem which

We study the dynamics of a simple pendulum attached to the center of mass of a satellite in an elliptic orbit. We consider the case where the pendulum lies in the orbital plane of the satellite. We find two linearly stable equilibrium positions for the Hamiltonian system describing the problem and study their parametric stability by constructing the boundary curves of the stability/instability regions

We present some necessary conditions for quasi-homogeneous differential systems to be completely integrable via Kovalevskaya exponents. Then, as an application, we give a new link between the weak-Painlevé property and the algebraical integrability for polynomial differential systems. Additionally, we also formulate stronger theorems in terms of Kovalevskaya exponents for homogeneous Newton systems

We consider the stability of the equilibrium position of a periodic Hamiltonian system with one degree of freedom. It is supposed that the series expansion of the Hamiltonian function, in a small neighborhood of the equilibrium position, does not include terms of second and third degree. Moreover, we focus on a degenerate case, when fourth-degree terms in the Hamiltonian function are not enough to

Nonlinear differential equations associated with the second Painlevé equation are considered. Transformations for solutions of the singular manifold equation are presented. It is shown that rational solutions of the singular manifold equation are determined by means of the Yablonskii-Vorob’ev polynomials. It is demonstrated that rational solutions for some differential equations are also expressed

A generalization of the Suslov problem with changing parameters is considered. The physical interpretation is a Chaplygin sleigh moving on a sphere. The problem is reduced to the study of a two-dimensional system describing the evolution of the angular velocity of a body. The system without viscous friction and the system with viscous friction are considered. Poincaré maps are constructed, attractors

For the 4-body problem there is the following conjecture: Given arbitrary positive masses, the planar 4-body problem has a unique convex central configuration for each ordering of the masses on its convex hull. Until now this conjecture has remained open. Our aim is to prove that this conjecture cannot be extended to the (ℓ + 2)-body problem with ℓ ⩾ 3. In particular, we prove that the symmetric (2n

Intermittency is a route to chaos when transitions between laminar and chaotic dynamics occur. The main attribute of intermittency is the reinjection mechanism, described by the reinjection probability density (RPD), which maps trajectories of the system from the chaotic region into the laminar one. The main results on chaotic intermittency strongly depend on the RPD. Recently a generalized power law

We present a simple model for describing the dynamics of the interaction between a homogeneous population or society, and the natural resources and reserves that the society needs for its survival. The model is formulated in terms of ordinary differential equations, which are subsequently discretised, the discrete system providing a natural integrator for the continuous one. An ultradiscrete, generalised

We consider a family of simple flows in tori that display chaotic behavior in a wide sense. But these flows do not have homoclinic nor heteroclinic orbits. They have only a fixed point which is of parabolic type. However, the dynamics returns infinitely many times near the fixed point due to quasi-periodicity. A preliminary example is given for maps introduced in a paper containing many examples of

This paper examines the motion of a balanced spherical robot under the action of periodically changing moments of inertia and gyrostatic momentum. The system of equations of motion is constructed using the model of the rolling of a rubber body (without slipping and twisting) and is nonconservative. It is shown that in the absence of gyrostatic momentum the equations of motion admit three invariant

The general Jacobi symplectic variables generated by a combinatorial algorithm from the full binary tree T(N) are used to formulate some nonheliocentric gravitational N-body problems in perturbation form. The resulting uncoupled term HU for (N - 1) independent Keplerian motions and the perturbation term UP are both explicitly dependent on the partial ordering induced by the tree T(N). This leads to

This paper reports conservation laws for highly dispersive optical solitons in birefringent fibers. Three forms of nonlinearities are studied which are Kerr, polynomial and nonlocal laws. Power, linear momentum and Hamiltonian are conserved for these types of nonlinear refractive index.

The well-known problem of the nonlinear stability of L4 and L5 in the circular spatial restricted three-body problem is revisited. Some new results in the light of the concept of Lie (formal) stability are presented. In particular, we provide stability and asymptotic estimates for three specific values of the mass ratio that remained uncovered. Moreover, in many cases we improve the estimates found

A (multidimensional) spherical periscope is a system of two ideal mirrors that reflect every ray of light emanating from some point back to this point. A spherical periscope defines a local diffeomorphism of the space of rays through this point, and we describe such diffeomorphisms. We also solve a similar problem for (multidimensional) reversed periscopes, the systems of two mirrors that reverse the

The formulation of the dynamics of N-bodies on the surface of an infinite cylinder is considered. We have chosen such a surface to be able to study the impact of the surface’s topology in the particle’s dynamics. For this purpose we need to make a choice of how to generalize the notion of gravitational potential on a general manifold. Following Boatto, Dritschel and Schaefer [5], we define a gravitational

This paper is concerned with the motion of an unbalanced dynamically symmetric sphere rolling without slipping on a plane in the presence of an external magnetic field. It is assumed that the sphere can consist completely or partially of dielectric, ferromagnetic, superconducting and crystalline materials. According to the existing phenomenological theory, the analysis of the sphere’s dynamics requires

This paper is concerned with a one-degree-of-freedom system close to an integrable system. It is assumed that the Hamiltonian function of the system is analytic in all its arguments, its perturbing part is periodic in time, and the unperturbed Hamiltonian function is degenerate. The existence of periodic motions with a period divisible by the period of perturbation is shown by the Poincaré methods

We consider control-linear left-invariant time-optimal problems on step 2 Carnot groups with a strictly convex set of control parameters (in particular, sub-Finsler problems). We describe all Casimirs linear in momenta on the dual of the Lie algebra. In the case of rank 3 Lie groups we describe the symplectic foliation on the dual of the Lie algebra. On this basis we show that extremal controls are

We study here the asymptotic condition \(\dot E = - \mu {g_n}b_A^2 = 0\) for an eccentric rolling and sliding ellipsoid with axes of principal moments of inertia directed along geometric axes of the ellipsoid, a rigid body which we call here Jellett’s egg (JE). It is shown by using dynamic equations expressed in terms of Euler angles that the asymptotic condition is satisfied by stationary solutions

Slow-fast dynamics and resonant phenomena can be found in a wide range of physical systems, including problems of celestial mechanics, fluid mechanics, and charged particle dynamics. Important resonant effects that control transport in the phase space in such systems are resonant scatterings and trappings. For systems with weak diffusive scatterings the transport properties can be described with the

Invariant surfaces play a crucial role in the dynamics of mechanical systems separating regions filled with chaotic behavior. Cases where such surfaces can be found are rare enough. Perhaps the most famous of these is the so-called Hess case in the mechanics of a heavy rigid body with a fixed point. We consider here the motion of a non-autonomous mechanical pendulum-like system with one degree of freedom

Self-similar reductions of the Sawada-Kotera and Kupershmidt equations are studied. Results of Painlevé’s test for these equations are given. Lax pairs for solving the Cauchy problems to these nonlinear ordinary differential equations are found. Special solutions of the Sawada-Kotera and Kupershmidt equations expressed via the first Painlevé equation are presented. Exact solutions of the Sawada-Kotera

We consider the roaming mechanism for chemical reactions under the nonholonomic constraint of constant kinetic energy. Our study is carried out in the context of the Hamiltonian isokinetic thermostat applied to Chesnavich’s model for an ion-molecule reaction. Through an analysis of phase space structures we show that imposing the nonholonomic constraint does not prevent the system from exhibiting roaming

We address the dynamics of near-integrable Hamiltonian systems with 3 degrees of freedom in extended vicinities of unperturbed resonant invariant Liouville tori. The main attention is paid to the case where the unperturbed torus satisfies two independent resonance conditions. In this case the average dynamics is 4-dimensional, reduced to a generalised motion under a conservative force on the 2-torus

We investigate stability properties of a type of periodic solutions of the N-vortex problem on general domains Ω ⊂ ℝ2. The solutions in question bifurcate from rigidly rotating configurations of the whole-plane vortex system and a critical point a0 ∈ Ω of the Robin function associated to the Dirichlet Laplacian of Ω. Under a linear stability condition on the initial rotating configuration, which can

We study the dynamics of the ring of identical phase oscillators with nonlinear nonlocal coupling. Using the Ott–Antonsen approach, the problem is formulated as a system of partial derivative equations for the local complex order parameter. In this framework, we investigate the existence and stability of twisted states. Both fully coherent and partially coherent stable twisted states were found (the