Variational submanifolds of Euclidean spaces

DOI10.1063/1.5010221zbMATH Open1390.70041arXiv1709.07826OpenAlexW2964279346MaRDI QIDQ4635291FDOQ4635291

Jana Volná, Demeter Krupka, Zbyněk Urban

Publication date: 16 April 2018

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

Abstract: Systems of ordinary differential equations (or dynamical forms in Lagrangian mechanics), induced by embeddings of smooth fibered manifolds over one-dimensional basis, are considered in the class of variational equations. For a given non-variational system, conditions assuring variationality (the Helmholtz conditions) of the induced system with respect to a submanifold of a Euclidean space are studied, and the problem of existence of these "variational submanifolds" is formulated in general and solved for second-order systems. The variational sequence theory on sheaves of differential forms is employed as a main tool for analysis of local and global aspects (variationality and variational triviality). The theory is illustrated by examples of holonomic constraints (submanifolds of a configuration Euclidean space) which are variational submanifolds in geometry and mechanics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.07826

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lagrange's equations (70H03) Fiber spaces in algebraic topology (55R05) Ordinary differential equations and systems on manifolds (34C40) Holonomic systems related to the dynamics of a system of particles (70F20)

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