Completeness of the trajectories of particles coupled to a general force field

DOI10.1007/S00205-012-0596-2MaRDI QIDQ1944757zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alfonso Romero, Miguel Sánchez, Anna Maria Candela

Publication date 27 March 2013

Published in Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.0523

zbMATH Keywords

differential equations on Riemannian manifoldHamiltonian systemLagrangian system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relations of PDEs with special manifold structures (Riemannian, Finsler, etc.) (58J60)

Abstract: We analyze the extendability of the solutions to a certain second order differential equation on a Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$, which is defined by a general class of forces (both prescribed on $M$ or depending on the velocity). The results include the general time-dependent anholonomic case, and further refinements for autonomous systems or forces derived from a potential are obtained. These extend classical results for Lagrangian and Hamiltonian systems. Several examples show the optimality of the assumptions as well as the applicability of the results, including an application to relativistic pp-waves.

Review text

The authors analyze the extendability of solutions to second order differential equations on a Riemannian manifold \((M, g)\) which is defined by a general class of forces (both prescribed on \(M\) or depending on the velocity). The results include the general time-dependent anholonomic case, and further refinements for autonomous systems or forces derived from a potential are obtained. These extend classical results for Lagrangian and Hamiltonian systems. Several examples show the optimality of the assumptions as well as the utility of the results, including an application to relativistic pp-waves.

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