scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1537410

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Authors Luis M. Pozo Coronado, Jaime Muñoz Masqué

Publication date 1 December 2000

zbMATH Keywords

generalized symmetryHamiltonian formalismnonlinear splinereductionvariational problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetries and conservation laws, reverse symmetries, invariant manifolds and their bifurcations, reduction for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H33)

Review text

The nonlinear spline is the extremal curve of the second order variational problem corresponding to the functional \(\int \kappa^2ds\) where \(\kappa \) is the geodesic curvature of the path and \(ds\) is the arc-length element. This problem is a singular one with vanishing Hessian. To overcome this difficulty the authors use the procedure of parameter elimination. According to this procedure one of the spatial coordinates is taken as a new parameter. In such a way the initial Lagrangian is projected onto a ``deparametrized one. In the case of nonlinear splines in the 3-dimensional space, which is considered in this paper, the ``deparametrized Lagrangian is regular. Introducing a natural Hamiltonian formulation to the problem the authors use Noether invariants to reduce the corresponding system to a nonlinear autonomous one on the plane. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0937.00045].

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