Constrained systems: A unified geometric approach

DOI10.1007/BF00672895MaRDI QIDQ809436zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors X. Gràcia, J. M. Pons

Publication date 1991

Published in International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00672895

zbMATH Keywords

constrained mechanical systemsLagrangian systempresymplectic structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99)

Review text

A new geometric definition of constrained mechanical systems is given. Some properties of these systems are studied and several related structures (e.g. morphisms) are defined. The approach allows one to consider the presymplectic and Lagrangian formalisms as particular cases. The constrained system is determined in terms of an additional vector bundle F over the configuration space M of the mechanical system as well as of a morphism A: TM\(\to F\) and a section \(\sigma\) of F.

Recommendations

• A geometric approach to constrained mechanical systems, symmetries and inverse problems
• Recent results in the geometry of constrained systems
• Mechanical systems with nonlinear constraints
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1341636
• Time-dependent Lagrangian systems: A geometric approach to the theory of systems with constraints

Cites work

• Equivalence between the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalism for constrained systems
• Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
• Higher-order conditions for singular Lagrangian dynamics
• On an evolution operator connecting Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms
• Presymplectic manifolds and the Dirac–Bergmann theory of constraints

Cited in

(16)

• A generalized geometric framework for constrained systems
• Connections and geodesic characteristics of equations of motion for constrained mechanical systems
• A geometric unification of constrained system dynamics
• Recent results in the geometry of constrained systems
• An extension of the Dirac and Gotay-Nester theories of constraints for Dirac dynamical systems
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4174399 (Why is no real title available?)
• Constrained systems, characteristic surfaces, and normal forms
• Higher-order Lagrangian systems: Geometric structures, dynamics, and constraints
• A geometric approach to constrained mechanical systems, symmetries and inverse problems
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1330830 (Why is no real title available?)
• The constraint algorithm for time-dependent Lagrangians
• Lagrangian systems with constraints: a geometric approach to the method of Lagrange multipliers
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6292269 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5041925 (Why is no real title available?)
• GEOMETRIC ASPECTS OF TIME-DEPENDENT SINGULAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
• Automated Deduction in Geometry

This page was built for publication: Constrained systems: A unified geometric approach

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q809436)