Invariant Lagrangians, mechanical connections and the Lagrange–Poincaré equations

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/41/34/344015MaRDI QIDQ3524286zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tom Mestdag, Mike Crampin

Publication date 9 September 2008

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.0146

zbMATH Keywords

Riemannian metricsymmetry groupprincipal connection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Lagrange's equations (70H03) Symmetries, Lie group and Lie algebra methods for problems in mechanics (70G65)

Abstract: We deal with Lagrangian systems that are invariant under the action of a symmetry group. The mechanical connection is a principal connection that is associated to Lagrangians which have a kinetic energy function that is defined by a Riemannian metric. In this paper we extend this notion to arbitrary Lagrangians. We then derive the reduced Lagrange-Poincare equations in a new fashion and we show how solutions of the Euler-Lagrange equations can be reconstructed with the help of the mechanical connection. Illustrative examples confirm the theory.

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