Hamiltonian structures for the heavy top and plasmas

Marsden, J. E.

Partial Diff. Eqs. and Dynamical Systems, Plenum Press, (W. Fitzgibbon, ed.), (1984), 259-278

Abstract:

Our purpose is to discuss the use of symmetry groups in a study of the chaotic dynamics of a heavy top and the Hamiltonian structure of the equations of plasma physics.