Symmetry Breaking for Toral Actions in Simple Mechanical Systems
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چکیده
For simple mechanical systems, bifurcating branches of relative equilibria with trivial symmetry from a given set of relative equilibria with toral symmetry are found. Lyapunov stability conditions along these branches are given.
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