Variational aspects of analytical mechanics

DOI10.11606/ISSN.2316-9028.V5I2P249-279zbMATH Open1268.49055arXiv1412.8578OpenAlexW2047660806WikidataQ121769738 ScholiaQ121769738MaRDI QIDQ353445FDOQ353445

Authors: Gianluca Gorni, Gaetano Zampieri 

Publication date: 12 July 2013

Published in: São Paulo Journal of Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give a recipe to generate "nonlocal" constants of motion for ODE Lagrangian systems and we apply the method to find useful constants of motion for dissipative system, for the Lane-Emden equation, and for the Maxwell-Bloch system with RWA.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.8578

zbMATH Keywords

energyangular momentumHamilton's principleNoether's theoremanalytical mechanicsgeodesicsvariational analysismomentumLagrange equationJacobi Lagrangians

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimality conditions for problems involving partial differential equations (49K20) Variational principles of physics (49S05) Lagrange's equations (70H03) Symmetries and conservation laws, reverse symmetries, invariant manifolds and their bifurcations, reduction for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H33) Hamilton's principle (70H25)

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• The Geodesics for Poincaré’s Half-Plane: A Nonstandard Derivation
• Nonstandard separation of variables for the Maxwell-Bloch conservative system

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