Explicit integration of one problem of motion of the generalized Kowalevski top

Abstract

In the problem of motion of the Kowalevski top in a double force field the four-dimensional invariant submanifold of the phase space was pointed out by [Kharlamov, M.P., 2002. Mekh. Tverd. Tela 32, 33–38]. We show that the equations of motion on this manifold can be separated by the appropriate change of variables, the new variables s 1, s 2 being elliptic functions of time. The natural phase variables (components of the angular velocity and the direction vectors of the forces with respect to the movable basis) are expressed via s 1, s 2 explicitly in elementary algebraic functions.