Lagrangian description of the variational equations

DOI10.1016/S0960-0779(03)00074-2zbMATH Open1068.70018arXivmath-ph/0403041OpenAlexW1972299755MaRDI QIDQ1433802FDOQ1433802

Authors: S. Rajasekar 

Publication date: 1 July 2004

Published in: Chaos, Solitons and Fractals (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A variant of the usual Lagrangian scheme is developed which describes both the equations of motion and the variational equations of a system. The required (prolonged) Lagrangian is defined in an extended configuration space comprising both the original configurations of the system and all the virtual displacements joining any two integral curves. Our main result establishes that both the Euler-Lagrange equations and the corresponding variational equations of the original system can be viewed as the Lagrangian vector field associated with the first prolongation of the original LagrangianAfter discussing certain features of the formulation, we introduce the so-called inherited constants of the motion and relate them to the Noether constants of the extended system.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0403041

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods for problems in mechanics (70G75) Lagrange's equations (70H03) Symmetries and conservation laws, reverse symmetries, invariant manifolds and their bifurcations, reduction for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H33)

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