Scaling Symmetries and Conformal Relative Equilibria on Poisson Manifolds, with Applications to Lie--Poisson Systems

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Main Author: Santoprete, Manuele
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contents We investigate conformal relative equilibria for Hamiltonian systems on exact Poisson manifolds equipped with scaling symmetries. By introducing conformally Poisson actions and conformal momentum maps, we characterize these equilibria through an augmented Hamiltonian formulation; in the nondegenerate case, this recovers the conditions recently developed for the exact symplectic case. Specializing to Lie--Poisson manifolds, where the natural scaling action canonically provides an exact Poisson structure on the dual of any finite-dimensional Lie algebra, we establish a purely algebraic criterion: a homogeneous Hamiltonian system admits a nontrivial conformal relative equilibrium if and only if the underlying Lie algebra contains a hyperbolic element. This yields a complete classification in dimension three via the Bianchi classification. As a prominent application, we show that nontrivial conformal relative equilibria emerge in the dynamics on $\mathfrak{so}(2,1)^*$, but are strictly obstructed for the classical free rigid body on $\mathfrak{so}(3)^*$.
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spellingShingle Scaling Symmetries and Conformal Relative Equilibria on Poisson Manifolds, with Applications to Lie--Poisson Systems
Santoprete, Manuele
Mathematical Physics
Differential Geometry
Dynamical Systems
37J06, 53D20, 70G45, 70H05, 70E15
We investigate conformal relative equilibria for Hamiltonian systems on exact Poisson manifolds equipped with scaling symmetries. By introducing conformally Poisson actions and conformal momentum maps, we characterize these equilibria through an augmented Hamiltonian formulation; in the nondegenerate case, this recovers the conditions recently developed for the exact symplectic case. Specializing to Lie--Poisson manifolds, where the natural scaling action canonically provides an exact Poisson structure on the dual of any finite-dimensional Lie algebra, we establish a purely algebraic criterion: a homogeneous Hamiltonian system admits a nontrivial conformal relative equilibrium if and only if the underlying Lie algebra contains a hyperbolic element. This yields a complete classification in dimension three via the Bianchi classification. As a prominent application, we show that nontrivial conformal relative equilibria emerge in the dynamics on $\mathfrak{so}(2,1)^*$, but are strictly obstructed for the classical free rigid body on $\mathfrak{so}(3)^*$.
title Scaling Symmetries and Conformal Relative Equilibria on Poisson Manifolds, with Applications to Lie--Poisson Systems
topic Mathematical Physics
Differential Geometry
Dynamical Systems
37J06, 53D20, 70G45, 70H05, 70E15
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.09062