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At the upright spinning state, . The reduced potential is locally minimized at zero inclination when
so sufficiently large axial angular momentum stabilizes the gravitationally inverted top.

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  1. Heavy symmetric top reduction
  2. Heavy symmetric top Hamiltonian
  3. Heavy symmetric top Lagrangian
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