Variational principles for spin systems and the Kirchhoff rod
DOI10.3934/jgm.2009.1.417zbMath1288.70012arXiv0904.1428MaRDI QIDQ2380717
Darryl D. Holm, Tudor S. Ratiu, François Gay-Balmaz
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
symmetry; variational principles; cocycle; spin system; Kirchhoff rod; affine Euler-Poincaré equations; Lagrangian reducton
74K10: Rods (beams, columns, shafts, arches, rings, etc.)
70G75: Variational methods for problems in mechanics
82D30: Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses)
70H33: Symmetries and conservation laws, reverse symmetries, invariant manifolds and their bifurcations, reduction for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics
70G65: Symmetries, Lie group and Lie algebra methods for problems in mechanics
