A variational principle for contact Hamiltonian systems

DOI10.1016/j.jde.2019.04.031zbMath1441.37068MaRDI QIDQ2420541

Jun Yan, Ya-Nan Wang

Publication date: 6 June 2019

Published in: Journal of Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jde.2019.04.031

zbMATH Keywords

minimization method; implicit variational principle; contact Hamiltonian system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

70G75: Variational methods for problems in mechanics

53D10: Contact manifolds (general theory)

70H30: Other variational principles in mechanics

37J55: Contact systems

37J46: Periodic, homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems