Optimal control and geometry: integrable systems

Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction......Page 11
Chapter 1 The Orbit Theorem and Lie determined systems......Page 22
 1.1 Vector fields and differential forms......Page 23
 1.2 Flows and diffeomorphisms......Page 27
 1.3 Families of vector fields: the Orbit theorem......Page 30
 1.4 Distributions and Lie determined systems......Page 35
 2.1 Control systems and families of vector fields......Page 40
 2.2 The Lie saturate......Page 46
Chapter 3 Lie groups and homogeneous spaces......Page 50
 3.1 The Lie algebra and the exponential map......Page 52
 3.2 Lie subgroups......Page 55
 3.3 Families of left-invariant vector fields and accessibility......Page 60
 3.4 Homogeneous spaces......Page 62
 4.1 Symplectic vector spaces......Page 65
 4.2 The cotangent bundle of a vector space......Page 68
 4.3 Symplectic manifolds......Page 70
 5.1 Poisson manifolds and Poisson vector fields......Page 76
 5.2 The cotangent bundle of a Lie group: coadjoint orbits......Page 78
Chapter 6 Hamiltonians and optimality: the Maximum Principle......Page 85
 6.1 Extremal trajectories......Page 86
 6.2 Optimal control and the calculus of variations......Page 89
 6.3 The Maximum Principle......Page 92
 6.4 The Maximum Principle in the presence of symmetries......Page 102
 6.5 Abnormal extremals......Page 106
 6.6 The Maximum Principle and Weierstrass’ excess function......Page 112
 7.1 Hyperbolic geometry......Page 117
 7.2 Elliptic geometry......Page 122
 7.3 Sub-Riemannian view......Page 127
 7.4 Elastic curves......Page 134
 7.5 Complex overview and integration......Page 136
 8.1 Lie groups with an involutive automorphism......Page 139
 8.2 Symmetric Riemannian pairs......Page 141
 8.3 The sub-Riemannian problem......Page 152
 8.4 Sub-Riemannian and Riemannian geodesics......Page 156
 8.5 Jacobi curves and the curvature......Page 159
 8.6 Spaces of constant curvature......Page 163
Chapter 9 Affine-quadratic problem......Page 168
 9.1 Affine-quadratic Hamiltonians......Page 173
 9.2 Isospectral representations......Page 176
 9.3 Integrability......Page 180
Chapter 10 Cotangent bundles of homogeneous spaces as coadjoint orbits......Page 188
 10.1 Spheres, hyperboloids, Stiefel and Grassmannian manifolds......Page 189
 10.2 Canonical affine Hamiltonians on rank one orbits: Kepler and Newmann......Page 198
 10.3 Degenerate case and Kepler’s problem......Page 200
 10.4 Mechanical problem of C. Newmann......Page 208
 10.5 The group of upper triangular matrices and Toda lattices......Page 213
Chapter 11 Elliptic geodesic problem on the sphere......Page 219
 11.1 Elliptic Hamiltonian on semi-direct rank one orbits......Page 220
 11.2 The Maximum Principle in ambient coordinates......Page 224
 11.3 Elliptic problem on the sphere and Jacobi’s problem on the ellipsoid......Page 232
 11.4 Elliptic coordinates on the sphere......Page 234
Chapter 12 Rigid body and its generalizations......Page 241
 12.1 The Euler top and geodesic problems on SOn(R)......Page 242
 12.2 Tops in the presence of Newtonian potentials......Page 252
Chapter 13 Isometry groups of space forms and affine systems: Kirchhoff’s elastic problem......Page 259
 13.1 Elastic curves and the pendulum......Page 262
 13.2 Parallel and Serret–Frenet frames and elastic curves......Page 269
 13.3 Serret–Frenet frames and the elastic problem......Page 272
 13.4 Kichhoff’s elastic problem......Page 277
Chapter 14 Kowalewski–Lyapunov criteria......Page 283
 14.1 Complex quaternions and SO4(C)......Page 285
 14.2 Complex Poisson structure and left-invariant Hamiltonians......Page 291
 14.3 Affine Hamiltonians on SO4(C) and meromorphic solutions......Page 294
 14.4 Kirchhoff–Lagrange equation and its solution......Page 308
Chapter 15 Kirchhoff–Kowalewski equation......Page 317
 15.1 Eulers’ solutions and addition formulas of A. Weil......Page 325
 15.2 The hyperelliptic curve......Page 331
 15.3 Kowalewski gyrostat in two constant fields......Page 334
 16.1 The curvature problem......Page 347
 16.2 Elastic problem revisited – Dubins–Delauney on space forms......Page 352
 16.3 Curvature problem on symmetric spaces......Page 371
 16.4 Elastic curves and the rolling sphere problem......Page 379
Chapter 17 The non-linear Schroedinger’s equation and Heisenberg’s magnetic equation–solitons......Page 389
 17.1 Horizontal Darboux curves......Page 390
 17.2 Darboux curves and symplectic Fr ´ echet manifolds......Page 397
 17.3 Geometric invariants of curves and their Hamiltonian vector fields......Page 407
 17.4 Affine Hamiltonians and solitons......Page 420
 Concluding remarks......Page 425
References......Page 427
Index......Page 434