Extension of the Herglotz Algorithm to Nonautonomous Canonical Transformations

DOI10.1137/S003614459834762XMaRDI QIDQ4943949zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Chris Orum, Robert T. Hudspeth, W. D. Black, Ronald B. Guenther

Publication date 19 March 2000

Published in SIAM Review (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1137/s003614459834762x

zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltonian systemLagrange's bracketlocal exactness of 1-formPoisson bracketremainder functiontime-dependent canonical transformation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Hamilton's equations (70H05) Canonical and symplectic transformations for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H15)

Review text

In a previous ``classroom note of SIAM Review, \textit{R. B. Guenther, J. A. Gottsch} and \textit{D. B. Kramer} [ibid. 38, 287-293 (1996; Zbl 0863.70016)] explained what they call the Herglotz algorithm for constructing canonical transformations. Essentially, this method starts from the selection of \(n\) independent functions \(Q_i\) on phase space which are in involution, adds \(n\) further functions \(S_i\) to these with the only requirement that the set of \(2n\) functions thus obtained determines a regular coordinate transformation, and finally exploits in a clever way the local exactness of the 1-form \(p_k dq_k\), with \(Q_i\) regarded as parameters, to obtain a function \(\Omega(Q,S)\) from which variables \(P_j\), canonically conjugated to \(Q_i\), then easily follow. The title of the present note is in a certain sense a little misleading as it is not directly related to the above procedure. It takes the availability of a time-dependent canonical transformation as the starting point, and then shows how the remainder function for applying this transformation to a given Hamiltonian system can be constructed by using another locally exact 1-form, without relying on the computation of the so-called generating function. What the two ideas have in common is that they both are based on a good understanding of the relationship between Poisson and Lagrange brackets.

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