Variational submanifolds of Euclidean spaces

DOI10.1063/1.5010221MaRDI QIDQ4635291zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zbyněk Urban, Jana Volná, Demeter Krupka

Publication date 16 April 2018

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

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)

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.

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