Discrete Lagrangian reduction, discrete Euler-Poincaré equations, and semidirect products

DOI10.1023/A:1007654605901zbMath0965.70025arXivmath/9906108MaRDI QIDQ1819183

Alexander Ivanovich Bobenko, Yuri Borisovich Suris

Publication date: 1 February 2000

Published in: Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9906108

zbMATH Keywords

configuration space; Lie group; Poisson bracket; variational integrators; Lagrangian reduction; discrete Euler-Poincaré equations; discrete Euler-Lagrange equations; mechanical integrators; semidirect group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

70-08: Computational methods for problems pertaining to mechanics of particles and systems

70H33: Symmetries and conservation laws, reverse symmetries, invariant manifolds and their bifurcations, reduction for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics

37M15: Discretization methods and integrators (symplectic, variational, geometric, etc.) for dynamical systems

70G65: Symmetries, Lie group and Lie algebra methods for problems in mechanics

70H03: Lagrange's equations

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