Dissipative systems with constraints

Ordinary differential equations and systems on manifolds (34C40) Dynamics induced by flows and semiflows (37C10) Attractors and repellers of smooth dynamical systems and their topological structure (37C70) Nonholonomic systems related to the dynamics of a system of particles (70F25)

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This is an elaborate study of global qualitative results for dissipative systems with constraints. The authors consider a compact, connected, Riemannian configuration manifold M, a (perfect) constraint subbundle \(\Sigma\) M of TM and a force field F: TM\(\to T^*M\), consisting of a conservative and a dissipative part: \(F=dV+D\). They first establish a general theory concerning the reactions corresponding to perfect constraints and the construction of the Gibbs-Maggi-Appell (GMA) vector field on \(\Sigma\) M. In section 3, some deep results are obtained in studying the attractor \({\mathcal A}\), consisting of all globally defined and bounded orbits on \(\Sigma\) M. It is shown, for example, that the \(\alpha\) and \(\omega\)- limit sets of any orbit in \({\mathcal A}\) are points, under the assumption that the center manifold of each equilibrium coincides locally with the set of equilibria. In that case, moreover, \({\mathcal A}\) appears to be the union of the unstable manifolds of the equilibrium points. In section 4, the relationship between the attractor \({\mathcal A}\) and the configuration space M is studied. It is shown that both have the same dimension if V is a Morse function, D is strongly dissipative and \({\mathcal A}\) is a manifold. For sufficiently small V, moreover, \({\mathcal A}\) is diffeomorphic to M. The final section concerns the study of the flow of the GMA vector field restricted to \({\mathcal A}\), with respect to a corresponding flow on M.

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