Dynamical equations, invariants and spectrum generating algebras of mechanical systems with position-dependent mass

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2013.004zbMATH Open1291.70005arXiv1208.2300MaRDI QIDQ352452FDOQ352452

Authors: Sara Cruz y Cruz, Oscar Rosas-Ortiz 

Publication date: 4 July 2013

Published in: SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We analyze the dynamical equations obeyed by a classical system with position-dependent mass. It is shown that there is a non-conservative force quadratic in the velocity associated to the variable mass. We construct the Lagrangian and the Hamiltonian for this system and find the modifications required in the Euler-Lagrange and Hamilton's equations to reproduce the appropriate Newton's dynamical law. Since the Hamiltonian is not time invariant, we get a constant of motion suited to write the dynamical equations in the form of the Hamilton's ones. The time-dependent first integrals of motion are then obtained from the factorization of such a constant. A canonical transformation is found to map the variable mass equations to those of a constant mass. As particular cases, we recover some recent results for which the dependence of the mass on the position was already unnoticed, and find new solvable potentials of the P"oschl-Teller form which seem to be new. The latter are associated to either the su(1,1) or the su(2) Lie algebras depending on the sign of the Hamiltonian.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.2300

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zbMATH Keywords

factorization methodposition-dependent massclassical generating algebrasdissipative dynamical systems[https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/w/index.php?title=+Special%3ASearch&search=P%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BDschl-Teller+potentials&go=Go P��schl-Teller potentials]Poisson algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kinematics of mechanisms and robots (70B15) Lagrange's equations (70H03) Hamilton's equations (70H05) Dynamical systems in classical and celestial mechanics (37N05) Variable mass, rockets (70P05)

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