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Finite checks of the torque-free spin results: stability certificates, an escape-time bound, and the linearized dichotomy
Example
Fix the diagonal inertia map with principal moments (Principal axes and principal moments of the inertia matrix, and positivity in the nondegenerate case) and the torque-free Euler system of Euler's equations under an adopted torque balance, and the torque-free invariants and principal-axis equations on . The three computations below check the certificates of Lyapunov stability of spin about the largest and smallest principal axes of the torque-free top, the escape bound of Instability of spin about the intermediate principal axis of the torque-free top, and the linearized formulas of Linearization of the torque-free Euler system at a principal-axis spin, and the oscillatory/exponential dichotomy at explicit data. The inertia values and component calculations are exact rationals or square roots; the escape-time upper bound is the exact expression . No measurement or simulation is involved, and no claim about a physical top is made.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The moments , the field , the certificates and of the stability theorem, the constants of the instability theorem, and the linearization data of the linearized theorem.
Along every solution and are constant; the torque-free equations in components are and cyclic analogues; and is an equilibrium for Euler's equations under an adopted torque balance, and the torque-free invariants and principal-axis equations.
For the extreme axes: with , and with ; both and are constant along solutions Lyapunov stability of spin about the largest and smallest principal axes of the torque-free top.
For the intermediate axis with : , , , ; the initial point lies on the level set , and its solution reaches by time Instability of spin about the intermediate principal axis of the torque-free top.
For the spin the linearized system is , , , with ; for , and the solution with data is , ; for the same with , and gives an unbounded solution Linearization of the torque-free Euler system at a principal-axis spin, and the oscillatory/exponential dichotomy, The six hyperbolic functions and their natural domains.
and the Euclidean norm is computed componentwise The squared cross-product norm is the Gram determinant of two vectors, The Euclidean inner product on , The cross product in ; for The exponential is a continuous bijection from onto .
Verification
Certificates at : and ; the instability data are , , , and for .
Stability certificate check about with and initial data on the unit sphere, where : (the -term of vanishes at ), so the bound holds at all times by [L2]; moreover , so , and since is continuous with we have , whence ; hence for all : the certificate inequality of [L2] is verified at explicit data, being the extreme axis of largest moment.
Instability check about with and : with the initial point is , with and exactly, so it lies on the invariant level set of [L1] and [L3] requires no further hypothesis; the escape time is bounded by , and there is an escape time no later than this bound at which the solution is at distance at least from .
Linearization check, first case: keep and take , so and ; with data the formulas of [L4] give , , and indeed and : the solution is bounded, in the oscillatory branch, and is an extreme moment for these data.
Linearization check, second case: take , so is the intermediate moment, and : then , , and the data give and , both unbounded as because by [L5]; this exhibits the exponential branch of the dichotomy and the linearized instability of the intermediate axis.
Depends on
Lyapunov stability of spin about the largest and smallest principal axes of the torque-free top
Instability of spin about the intermediate principal axis of the torque-free top
Linearization of the torque-free Euler system at a principal-axis spin, and the oscillatory/exponential dichotomy
Euler's equations under an adopted torque balance, and the torque-free invariants and principal-axis equations
Principal axes and principal moments of the inertia matrix, and positivity in the nondegenerate case
Symmetry, the quadratic identity , and the positive-definiteness criterion for the inertia matrix
The Euclidean inner product on
The squared cross-product norm is the Gram determinant of two vectors
The cross product in
The six hyperbolic functions and their natural domains
The exponential is a continuous bijection from onto
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Sources
- D. Tong, Classical Dynamics (Cambridge lecture notes, 2015), §§3.4.1-3.4.3, printed pp. 55-58: free-top invariants and the intermediate-axis stability criterion used in these arithmetic checks
- K. Likharev, Essential Graduate Physics: Classical Mechanics, Ch. 4 §4.4: principal-axis rotation stability, checked numerically here