The Chaplygin case in dynamics of a rigid body in fluid is orbitally equivalent to the Euler case in rigid body dynamics and to the Jacobi problem about geodesics on the ellipsoid

Abstract

The main goal of this paper is to demonstrate how the theory of invariants for integrable Hamiltonian systems with two degrees of freedom created by A.T. Fomenko, H. Zieschang, and A.V. Bolsinov helps to establish Liouville and orbital equivalence of some classical integrable systems. Three such systems are treated in the article: the Euler case in rigid body dynamics, the Jacobi problem about geodesics on the ellipsoid and the Chaplygin case in dynamics of a rigid body in fluid. The first two systems were known to be Liouville and even topologically orbitally equivalent (Fomenko, Bolsinov). Now we show that the Chaplygin system is orbitally equivalent to the Euler and Jacobi systems.