Variational principles for spin systems and the Kirchhoff rod

DOI10.3934/jgm.2009.1.417zbMath1288.70012arXiv0904.1428OpenAlexW2002567875MaRDI QIDQ2380717

Tudor S. Ratiu, François Gay-Balmaz, Darryl 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

symmetryvariational principlescocyclespin systemKirchhoff rodaffine Euler-Poincaré equationsLagrangian reducton

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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