A geometric analysis of dynamical systems with singular Lagrangians

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Authors Monika Havelková

Publication date 6 August 2012

Published in Communications in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/247025

zbMATH Keywords

Dirac's constraint theoryHamiltonian external differential systemssingular Lagrangian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Lagrange's equations (70H03) Constrained dynamics, Dirac's theory of constraints (70H45)

Review text

The author investigates a singular mechanical system given by the Lagrangian NEWLINE\[NEWLINEL= \dot q_1\dot q_3- q_2\dot q_3+ q_1 q_3.NEWLINE\]NEWLINE This system has been studied previously using the constraint method of Dirac, but the results were incomplete and conclusions from different authors were not in agreement. The author rectifies this situation by providing a rigorous solution using the Hamiltonian exterior differential systems method. Given the Lagrangian, one obtains the corresponding dynamical distribution in the first jet bundle. She shows that this distribution is not completely integrable and has a non-constant rank. To obtain the dynamics a general integration method (developed by O. Krupková) called the ``geometric constraint algorithm is applied.NEWLINENEWLINE The author calculates the Euler-Lagrange and Hamiltonian equations in terms of the corresponding distributions and finds the complete structure of the solutions. It is worth noting that the Hamiltonian and Euler-Lagrange equations are not equivalent and that the dynamics are not representable by a vector field.

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