Analytic Extension of the Birkhoff Normal Forms for the Free Rigid Body Dynamics on SO(3)

Abstract

Birkhoff normal form is a power series expansion associated with the local behavior of the Hamiltonian systems near a critical point. It is known to be convergent for integrable systems under some non-degeneracy conditions. By means of an expression of the inverse of Birkhoff normal form by a period integral, analytic continuation of the Birkhoff normal forms is considered for the free rigid body dynamics on SO(3). The global behavior of the Birkhoff normal forms is clarified in relation to the monodromy of an elliptic fibration which naturally arises from the free rigid body dynamics.