Higher-order contact mechanics

DOI10.1016/j.aop.2021.168396zbMath1457.37083arXiv2009.12160MaRDI QIDQ2660919

Manuel de León, Miguel C. Muñoz-Lecanda, Narciso Román-Roy, Jordi Gaset, Manuel Lainz

Publication date: 31 March 2021

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12160

zbMATH Keywords

higher-order systems; variational methods; contact manifolds; contact mechanics; Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms; higher-order tangent bundles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

70G75: Variational methods for problems in mechanics

70H05: Hamilton's equations

53D10: Contact manifolds (general theory)

70G45: Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics

70H03: Lagrange's equations

70H50: Higher-order theories for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics

37J55: Contact systems