Two remarks about the connection of Jacobi and Neumann integrable systems
The paper can be considered as the addendum to the papers by \textit{H. Knörrer} [J. Reine Angew. Math. 334, 69-78 (1982; Zbl 0478.58014)] and \textit{J. Moser} [Proc. Math. 8, 233-290 (1980; Zbl 0468.58011)] and consists of two remarks about the connection of Jacobi and Neumann systems. H. Knörrer [loc. cit.] discovered that the geodesics on the ellipsoid can be transformed into the trajectories of the motion of a point on the unit sphere under the influence of certain quadratic potential (Neumann system). The first remark says that Knörrer's theorem can be extended to the case of the motion on the ellipsoid in the potential field with \(U(x) = {1\over 2} \varepsilon x^ 2\). The second remark is an interpretation of the Lagrange multiplier for the geodesic flow on the ellipsoid in terms of the stability of the equilibrium point for a one-dimensional mechanical problem.
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