The Hannay angles: Geometry, adiabaticity, and an example

Abstract

The Hannay angles were introduced by Hannay as a means of measuring a holonomy effect in classical mechanics closely corresponding to the Berry phase in quantum mechanics. Using parameter-dependent momentum mappings we show that the Hannay angles are the holonomy of a natural connection. We generalize this effect to non-Abelian group actions and discuss non-integrable Hamiltonian systems. We prove an averaging theorem for phase space functions in the case of general multi-frequency dynamical systems which allows us to establish the almost adiabatic invariance of the Hannay angles. We conclude by giving an application to celestial mechanics.