Variational principles for spin systems and the Kirchhoff rod

DOI10.3934/JGM.2009.1.417MaRDI QIDQ2380717zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors François Gay-Balmaz, T. S. Ratiu, D. D. Holm

Publication date 9 April 2010

Published in Journal of Geometric Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.1428

zbMATH Keywords

symmetrycocyclevariational principlesspin systemKirchhoff rodLagrangian reductonaffine Euler-Poincaré equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods for problems in mechanics (70G75) Symmetries and conservation laws, reverse symmetries, invariant manifolds and their bifurcations, reduction for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H33) Rods (beams, columns, shafts, arches, rings, etc.) (74K10) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Symmetries, Lie group and Lie algebra methods for problems in mechanics (70G65)

Abstract: We obtain the affine Euler-Poincar'e equations by standard Lagrangian reduction and deduce the associated Clebsch-constrained variational principle. These results are illustrated in deriving the equations of motion for continuum spin systems and Kirchhoff's rod, where they provide a unified geometric interpretation.

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