The rolling of a dynamically balanced ball on a horizontal rough table without slipping was described by Chaplygin using Abel quadratures. We discuss integrable discretizations and deformations of this nonholonomic system using the same Abel quadratures. As a by-product one gets a new geodesic flow on the unit two-dimensional sphere whose additional integrals of motion are polynomials in the momenta of fourth order.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)353-367
Number of pages15
JournalRegular and Chaotic Dynamics
Volume22
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jul 2017

    Research areas

  • Abel quadratures, arithmetic of divisors, nonholonomic systems

    Scopus subject areas

  • Mathematics (miscellaneous)

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