On Dirac structures admitting a variational approach

DOI10.2140/MEMOCS.2023.11.1MaRDI QIDQ6082643zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Oscar Cosserat, Alexei Kotov, Camille Laurent-Gengoux, Leonid Ryvkin, Vladimir Salnikov

Publication date 30 November 2023

Published in Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.00313

zbMATH Keywords

constraintsDirac structurestheoretical mechanicsvariational approach

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, Hamiltonian and Lagrangian structures, symmetries, invariants (37J06) Relations of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems with topology, geometry and differential geometry (symplectic geometry, Poisson geometry, etc.) (37J39) Action-minimizing orbits and measures for finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems; variational principles; degree-theoretic methods (37J51) Poisson manifolds; Poisson groupoids and algebroids (53D17) Other variational principles in mechanics (70H30) Constrained dynamics, Dirac's theory of constraints (70H45)

Abstract: We discuss the notion of basic cohomology for Dirac structures and, more generally, Lie algebroids. We then use this notion to characterize the obstruction to a variational formulation of Dirac dynamics.

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