Abstract:
The topological analysis of irreducible systems with three degrees of
freedom is based on the investigation of the critical sets of momentum
maps. Such set is a union of phase spaces of integrable systems
(critical subsystems) with less number of degrees of freedom usually
having subsets of codimension 1 on which the induced symplectic
structure degenerates. We consider a real example from the rigid body
dynamics of a critical subsystem on a non-orientable 4-manifold. We
show how to calculate the gluing matrices using the separation of
variables and find, in the neighborhood of the set of symplectic form
degeneration, new atoms which are obtained as quotient manifolds of
standard 3-atoms with respect to a $\mathbb{Z}_2$-symmetry.