It is shown that one can obtain canonically-defined dynamical equations for non-conservative mechanical systems by starting with a first variation functional, instead of an action functional, and finding their zeroes. The kernel of the first variation functional, as an integral functional, is a 1-form on the manifold of kinematical states, which then represents the dynamical state of the system. If the 1-form is exact then the first variation functional is associated with the first variation of an action functional in the usual manner. The dynamical equations then follow from the vanishing of the dual of the Spencer operator that acts on the dynamical state. This operator, in turn, relates to the integrability of the kinematical states. The method is applied to the modeling of damped oscillators.
Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BIMSA)(北京国际数学研究中心);Yau Mathematical Sciences Center (YMSC), Tsinghua University(清华大学丘成桐数学科学中心);Faculty of Mathematics, National Research University Higher School of Economics(俄罗斯国立高等经济学院数学系)
Using older and recent results on the integrability of two-dimensional (2d) dynamical systems, we prove that the results obtained in a recent publication concerning the 2d generalized Ermakov system can be obtained as special cases of a more general approach. This approach is geometric and can be used to study efficiently similar dynamical systems.
Jacobi-Haantjes manifolds, integrability and dissipative mechanical systems
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Iztapalapa(墨西哥自治大学伊斯塔帕拉帕分校);Universidad Complutense de Madrid(马德里康普顿斯大学);Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas(数学科学研究所)
In this paper, we study the integrability of contact Hamiltonian systems, both time-dependent and independent. In order to do so, we construct a Hamilton--Jacobi theory for these systems following two approaches, obtaining two different Hamilton--Jacobi equations. Compared to conservative Hamiltonian systems, contact Hamiltonian systems depend of one additional parameter. The fact of obtaining two equations reflects whether we are looking for solutions depending on this additional parameter or not. In order to illustrate the theory developed in this paper, we study three examples: the free par…
Geometric mechanics is a branch of mathematical physics that studies classical mechanics of particles and fields from the point of view of geometry. In a geometric language, symmetries can be expressed in a natural manner as vector fields that generate the corresponding symmetry group. Moreover, with the geometric machinery, the phase space of a mechanical system with symmetries can be reduced to a space with less dimensions. As it is well-known, non-conservative forces cannot be written as the gradient of a potential, so they cannot be absorbed in the Lagrangian or Hamiltonian. The descriptio…
The integrable 1+1-dimensional SU(2) principal chiral model (PCM) serves as a toy-model for 3+1-dimensional Yang-Mills theory as it is asymptotically free and displays a mass gap. Interestingly, the PCM is 'pseudodual' to a scalar field theory introduced by Zakharov and Mikhailov and Nappi that is strongly coupled in the ultraviolet and could serve as a toy-model for non-perturbative properties of theories with a Landau pole. Unlike the 'Euclidean' current algebra of the PCM, its pseudodual is based on a nilpotent current algebra. Recently, Rajeev and Ranken obtained a mechanical reduction by …
The determination of the first integrals (FIs) of a dynamical system and the subsequent assessment of their integrability or superintegrability in a systematic way is still an open subject. One method which has been developed along these lines for second order autonomous dynamical systems is the so-called direct method. According to this method, one assumes a general functional form for the FI I and requires the condition dI/dt=0 along the dynamical equations. This results to a system of partial differential equations (PDEs) to which one adds the necessary integrability conditions of the invol…
This thesis concerns the dynamics and integrability of the Rajeev-Ranken (RR) model, a mechanical system with 3 degrees of freedom describing screw-type nonlinear wave solutions of a scalar field theory dual to the 1+1D SU(2) Principal Chiral Model. This field theory is strongly coupled in the UV and could serve as a toy model to study nonperturbative features of theories with a perturbative Landau pole. We begin with a Lagrangian and a pair of Hamiltonian formulations based on compatible degenerate nilpotent and Euclidean Poisson brackets. Darboux coordinates, Lax pairs and classical r-matric…