A note on Godbillon dynamics and generalized potentials

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Authors Renato Grassini, Fiorella Barone

Publication date 20 October 2005

Published in Ricerche di Matematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

generalized potentialsimplicit differential equations on manifoldspresymplectic dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40)

Review text

The well-known \textit{C. Godbillon}'s geometrization of mechanics [Géométrie différentielle et mécanique analytique (Nouv. Tirage), Paris: Hermann (1985; Zbl 0653.53001)] is generalized in order to include nonregular Lagrangians and nonstandard force fields. Also, an inverse problem of variational calculus, naturally associated to a Godbillon system, yields a geometric framework based on force fields derives from generalized potentials. The last section is devoted to two examples (from classical and relativistic particle dynamics) of regular and nonregular Godbillon systems with generalized potentials.

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